[PD] Meaning of -noprefs

[Miller Puckette]

Hi all,

I think "-noprefs" should stop .pdrc as well, since it's in the spirit
of being able to find out whether a problem is coming from the configuration
or from Pd itself.  If it's reasonably easy to do I'll change that.

That said, I think ".pdrc" should be regarded as deprecated, unless there's
something you can do with it that can't be done in .pdsettings instead.

cheers
Miller

On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 09:31:31AM +0100, Peter Plessas wrote:
> Dear List, Simon
> 
> Thanks Simon for your kind reply and explanations
> 
> So although there might be space for calling that behavior an additional 
> but questionable 'feature', i consider it an inconsistency in user 
> interface design. Preferences are preferences, whether they are in a 
> .pdrc file or in a preferences file.
> 
> IMHO -noprefs should disable all preferences-mechanisms.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Peter
> 
> simon wise wrote:
> > 
> > On 1 Dec 2007, at 10:11 PM, Peter Plessas wrote:
> > 
> >> i thought that the -noprefs flag also disables loading of the .pdrc file
> >>   on linux, but it does not. Is this intentional on 0.40-2?
> > 
> > Since the preference dialogues were added they have always been treated 
> > as quite separate from the older .pdrc system - IMHO this split remains 
> > useful as it is possible to either ignore the older system (just delete 
> > any .pdrc files) or use it instead (delete the settings files instead) 
> > or use both in parallel to help manage your settings in different ways 
> > for different circumstances (eg using the .pdrc to set up machine 
> > specific things like which soundcard to use while selecting libraries 
> > and startup patches with the preferences). The newer preference system 
> > is getting some very useful features - especially the embedded option! - 
> > and when the dialogue box eventually gets more than 10 slots I will use 
> > the .pdrc system less often.
> > 
> > simon
> > 
> > 
> 
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