[Bf-funboard] colour theme preferences

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi,

It'll be in the .B.blend of course. The all-in-one file is one of  
Blender's nice features.

Your argument about freaking .B.blend files also apply text files. If  
you save wrong settings, you're screwed anyway. Make a backup!

For after 2.3, I like to make using presets and UI configs easier  
though. I can imagine for example:

- you want to load a file without UI config from other people
- you want to manage multiple presets, for UI and user settings

Also don't forget that user settings only save with CTRL+U command, and  
never sneak into a regular .blend.

-Ton-




On Tuesday, Oct 7, 2003, at 14:29 Europe/Amsterdam, Robert Wenzlaff  
wrote:

> On Monday 06 October 2003 08:56 pm, Matt Ebb wrote:
>> I dunno, I think the method for adjusting the colours as in tuhopuu  
>> is not
>> bad (although it could do with a bit of polish, but that's no prob).  
>> As far
>> as I can remember, Blender has never used external files for  
>> configuration
>> - the .b.blend is used for that. I'd personally refer to keep things  
>> simple
>> and consistent with the 'blender way' rather than expanding out too  
>> much
>> into a billion hard to understand config files (linux users and  
>> /etc.. tsk
>> tsk... :D)
>
> Just because it's a separate text file, does not mean you have to edit  
> it by
> hand. Over 95% of those "billions of text files" in linux, are only  
> edited by
> the programs that use them.  But having them in text format is nice  
> when you
> manage to slip an error that keeps the app from opening into one.  (Is  
> there
> a way to edit Window's registry if you can only boot the machine to a
> commandline?)
>
> Dumping everything into the .B.blend does have one drawback.  Your  
> configs are
> an all-or-nothing affair.  If you mess up your .B.blend to the point  
> Blender
> freaks out when you open it (say you accidently set all colors to  
> black, and
> can't find the "default colors" button), then you have to delete your
> .B.blend, and you loose all your paths,and any other info you saved in  
> there,
> too.
> --  
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