Re: [ jEdit-users ] Voting: end of line markings on default install

[Shlomy R. <sre...@gm...>]

Scare users? A small button in the "tip of the day" dialog to open a
simple configuration dialog?
The configuration dialog I referred to is NOT the Global Options
dialog, which is scary. It's a simple wizard-style dialog.

Shlomy

On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 9:38 PM, Bertalan Fodor <lil...@or...> wrote:
> Oh no that would scare users. We should provide common defaults, as many users use jedit as a second editor. Quite a lot use only for lilypond editing. The other two were not so critical anyway. A mode dependent setting would be not so bad, but still the default should be off, according to most users.
>
>  ---- Original message ----
> From: Shlomy Reinstein <sre...@gm...>
> Sent: 17 Nov 2009 10:34 -08:00
> To: Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool) <lil...@or...>
> Cc:  <jed...@li...>
> Subject: Re: [ jEdit-users ] Voting: end of line markings on default install
>
> Even though the email was about the default end-of-line marking, there
> are several settings that belong to the category of "settings that are
> commonly changed after first installation". Some of them were
> mentioned in the specified email thread.
>
> I think the best way to handle this is to provide a "first-time"
> configuration dialog that will provide users with quick access to the
> commonly changed settings after the first installation. If I am not
> mistaken, the first time jEdit is started, the "Tip of the day" (or
> whatever it's called) is shown, with a check-box allowing the users to
> eliminate it. We can add a button to this dialog that will open the
> "first-time" configuration dialog.
> I might be repeating what I said a long time ago, but no decision was
> reached so I did nothing about it.
>
> Shlomy
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 4:24 PM, Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool)
> <lil...@or...> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I just installed jEdit on a clean system, and found annoying that end of
>> line markers are turned on by default. Many people find this annoying
>> (google for "annoying jedit end of line marker"), so based on a
>> discussion originally made in 2007, and some requests from the users of
>> my LilyPondTool plugin, I created a bug report about this.
>> https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=100588&aid=2898997&group_id=588
>>
>> Though the majority of the original discussion's participants
>> (http://marc.info/?l=jedit-users&m=118997998630016&w=2) supported
>> turning this feature off by default, to gather more user opinion on
>> this, please vote:
>>
>> http://doodle.com/he292affcxh9epdr
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Bert
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day
>> trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on
>> what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with
>> Crystal Reports now.  http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july
>> --
>> -----------------------------------------------
>> jEdit Users' List
>> jEd...@li...
>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jedit-users
>>
>
>
>
>