Re: qt-settings file

[Torsten]

On 09.10.2013 14:19, Ben Abbott wrote:
> 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?

A menu item like this already exists. It is the last entry of the window
menu: "Reset Default Window Layout".

Torsten