[Bf-funboard] Saving User Settings

Kent Mein bf-funboard@blender.org
Wed, 17 Sep 2003 10:13:57 -0500


In reply to Ton Roosendaal (ton@blender.org):

> Hi,
> 
> Here how it works (technically);
> 
> (Kent: when Blender starts, it reads UserData from the laptop $HOME, it  
> should not read NumPad defaults from regular .blend files.)
> 
> The convention how we treat UserData is not real issue I think. Having  
> a default startup .blend file is not an issue either. What we can  
> improve is:
> 
> - naming it differently ("save user template" and "load user template"  
> or so)
> - allowing Screens to be loaded from other files (SHIFT+F1)
> - make a load option "don't load UI from file)

Not sure but the last two we might also want to make it so that a given
blend file will not let you do them.  Say for a game.

Kent
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