On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 05:31:27PM -0500, Pavel Roskin wrote: > On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 23:14 +0100, Leonard den Ottolander wrote: > > On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 13:48 +0100, Jindrich Novy wrote: > > > 1. "Ok" sets the parameters only for the current session and won't > > > touch the ini file. > > > > "Ok" is equivalent to "save" if "auto save setup" is set. > > ... and if you exit from mc rather than e.g. close the xterm window. > just closing xterm is generally a stupid idea. and forgetting it at session exit ... my wish for supporting xsmp still stands.
> And if you don't have another mc running that would overwrite those > settings if you exit from it properly. > KConfig rescans the config and merges the changes into the just read config on saving. i think it wouldn't be that hard to implement in mc, too. of course this doesn't help with conflicting changes, but that's obvious and part of the "mental model". > I think that "auto save setup" is something that cannot be implemented > reliably in mc unless you make "Ok" work exactly like "Save" and save > changes immediately. > this is what both kde and gnome do, so i think it's safe to assume it is a reasonable approach. as far as remembering the last directory is concerned: that's sort of poor man's session management, not option management. it's basically the same as remembering the last position in the viewer and editor. i.e., there should be a separate option for enabling it. -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! -- Chaos, panic, and disorder - my work here is done. _______________________________________________ Mc-devel mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc-devel