On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 09:33:23PM -0700, Alex Perry wrote: > > > > For example, say I'm a long-time X-Plane user and just can't live with > > > > the default FG key bindings. I could create my very own > > > > ~/.fgfs/keyboard.xml and completely override the master file. > > > > > > That's exactly why the keymappings are broken out of the preferences.xml > > > You can have two keyfiles and switch between them by changing one line. > > > > You're assuming that the user has write access to the FGBASE dir -- I'm > > not. On a shared system, each user would have to have their own FGBASE > > in order to use a different keyboard.xml file. Right? > > Now I understand what you're asking. First, I think you can over-ride the > preferences.xml on the command line, write and refer to your own custom one, > and inside that selectively refer to the subfiles of the original. > Second, a read-only site-wide preferences.xml should be very minimalist > so that it isn't too difficult to use the .fgfsrc and command line settings. > What about allowing the user to specify a .xml file to load instead of the defaults for each of the config files? ie
fgfs --keyboard-prefs=~/.fgfs/my-keyboard.xml and the like? That'd make things /far/ more flexible, and it'd fit nicely with the current .fgfsrc system . . . I don't know how the preferences loading code works, but it shouldn't be hard to extend it to handle this . . . Simon -- PGP public key Id 0x144A991C, or ftp://bg77.anu.edu.au/pub/himi/himi.asc (crappy) Homepage: http://bg77.anu.edu.au doe #237 (see http://www.lemuria.org/DeCSS) My DeCSS mirror: ftp://bg77.anu.edu.au/pub/mirrors/css/
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