Re: qt-settings file

[Ben Abbott]

On Oct 9, 2013, at 3:04 AM, Daniel J Sebald wrote:

> On 10/08/2013 02:22 PM, John W. Eaton wrote:
> 
>> On 10/08/2013 02:46 AM, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
>> 
>>> Only one: I think fairly early on we tried to make the options
>>> descriptive rather than numeric so that there isn't confusion resulting
>>> from what the quantity within the settings file means if the version
>>> changes. My thinking is that it is only the really old versions that are
>>> a problem, but I think most beta testers are beyond that because there
>>> was a problem with Octave freezing around then if the settings file
>>> wasn't just so. Torsten did most of the work there, so he'll have a
>>> better perspective.
>> 
>> My concern is that since I added the community news page, the initial
>> layout will probably be bad if you use an old qt-settings file.
> 
> I suspect that is a minor problem.  Most users will probably drag and expand 
> their main GUI window so it takes up most of the screen.  Those window 
> dimensions get saved in the settings file and will be retrieved for the next 
> launch, be it a new version needing more screen space.
> 
> If any panels get lost somehow, I think they are listed in some menu where 
> they can be reshown.
> 
> It would be easy enough to modify just the layout settings within the 
> settings file, but I think for the most part the layout will be OK with a 
> version change.
> 
> Dan

Is it possible to add a menu item to reset the layout to some reasonable 
default?

Ben