[Bf-committers] Blender 2.57 Release AHOY! (1)

[Campbell Barton]

Both my fault too!
- Error report on engine load only shows in the info view, so no
popups which complain to the user, infact the message should show in
the info header but because its done on file load it doesn't, I marked
it as a TODO in the code, so we have a nice case of a bug hiding a
bug.
IMHO its bad but not a showstopper (fixed in svn).

- Not loading bookmarks & recent file list is stupid, currently this
is only done on load.
  This bug existed before the "Copy Previous Settings" operator was
added it just that moving blenders configuration wasn't something
users ended up doing much.
  My main aim was go get the files copied to the right locations &
correctly check if copying was needed on all OS's & configurations,
(self contained, system wide install etc).

Calling WM_read_history() on file new looks like it should work.
The bookmarks are not so simple since its called from ED_file_init
which initializes file sel icons & thumbnail dir, of coure splitting
it off into a function isn't hard, but I rather not do this as a last
minute fix.

For a quick solution on this it could just have a popup that says
"restart blender for new settings".
The drawback with this is it leaves blender splash with the "Copy
Settings" button still there, as if nothing happened, the splash wont
redraw without the button because of how its setup (draw call only
runs once), the copy settings operator has no way to exit the splash
or force a re-initialization - unless we add some api calls or
operators to do so...

...so maybe users can just put up with this one time annoyances?, we
probably get a huge number of more important reports so since this is
only a glitch and doesn't stop the button being useful I'm inclined to
just go ahead with the release.