[Bf-committers] Settings and preferences out of blend format

[Martin Poirier]

Without having to go to a text format, it might be possible to save the user preferences structure separately from the startup file (default layout, scene content, ...), which would also solve that problem, IMHO.

Martin

--- On Wed, 5/19/10, Jonathan Williamson <jonathan at montagestudio.org> wrote:

> From: Jonathan Williamson <jonathan at montagestudio.org>
> Subject: Re: [Bf-committers] Settings and preferences out of blend format
> To: malefico at licuadorastudio.com, "bf-blender developers" <bf-committers at blender.org>
> Received: Wednesday, May 19, 2010, 5:59 PM
> I completely agree with Malefico on
> this one. I don't know how many times I
> have been working on a file and find a preference I want to
> make default,
> but to do so I have to load up the default file first and
> THEN save my new
> preferences.
> 
> Saving out the preferences to a text file would save quite
> the headache.
> 
> Jonathan Williamson
> http://www.montagestudio.org
> 
> 
> On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 4:22 PM, <malefico at licuadorastudio.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > Hi guys,
> >
> > It'll be great if default settings or user
> preferences, could be saved in
> > a text file instead of include everything in a blend
> file.
> >
> > It has happened to me a lot of times, that I tweaked
> something in the
> > interface and then press CTRL+U or Save Settings,
> which lead to next time
> > I open Blender it loads the thousands samurais I was
> animating in my shot
> > when I saved the particular preference.
> >
> > I know I'm stupid to do that, but usually you realized
> a particular
> > preference WHILE working, so it makes sense to me that
> settings could be
> > saved separately from the current blend file.
> >
> > Maybe now that everything is pythonized this is not a
> hard task to
> > accomplish ? Maybe it's been already discussed here ?
> >
> > Thanks in advance !
> >
> > malefico.
> >
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