[Bf-funboard] Saving User Settings

[Matt Ebb]

One thing that can annoy me about it is that the settings are saved in the
specific file that's open. I have encountered this in recent work when I've
opened an older .blend with different settings (in particular, auto save was
turned off.) and worked on it, expecting it to autosave, which is how my
current .b.blend is set up. However of course it wasn't autosaving, which
meant when I experimented messing around and experimenting and modifying
stuff as usual, I couldn't hit autosave to get back to where I was, and I
lost a fair bit of work :(

I know it's easy to say for this sort of thing "user error" "check the docs"
"you should know what settings are set" but it's annoying when it's so easy
to make a mess of things like this, just through small mistakes.

Matt


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <jp@nuance9.com>
To: <bf-funboard@blender.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 12:25 AM
Subject: [Bf-funboard] Saving User Settings


> I like the ideas others expressed about including some default screen
setups, especially
> the aspect of using more descriptive identifiers than screen.001, etc.
>
> Here is something that kind of annoys me about "CTRL-U" - Save User
Defaults.
>
> When I first came upon that command, don't remember how that happened,
what I
> expected it to do was save the UI settings and setup that I had rearranged
and was
> comfortable with as the default.  That is a handy function.
>
> After using it I noticed some strange things.  If I went to File > New, it
would ask me if I
> want to Erase All, and I would select yes - and then my screen would
refresh with this
> old model of mine in the workspace.  Also everytime I opened Blender that
same model
> would be there. I would wonder "where did that come from", and for quite a
while
> assumed it was just a Blender bug.  I eventually realized that the CTRL-U
apparently
> saved EVERYTHING about the current state including the current model.
>
> Personally I think that is kind of confusing.  Maybe it is just me.  But
personally I would
> find it more useful to be able to set the default settings / screen layout
WITHOUT
> importing the current model as well.
>
> What do others think?
> Sincerely,
>
> Justin Pease
> N u a n c e   N i n e
> Web Usability, Development and Design
> www.nuance9.com
>
>
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