Re: [Audacity-devel] Audacity Preferences - Audacity Wiki

[Gale (A. Team) <ga...@au...>]

Martyn Shaw-2 wrote:
> 
> Hi Vaughan
> 
> That sounds useful, but hard to do.
> 
> I was responsible for the 'remove all the content except the line 
> "NewPrefsInitialized=1"' idea, I think, since the 1.2 prefs were 
> getting read from the registry otherwise.  A button would be useful but...
> 
> Where would you put the button?  Would it clear the registry only if 
> 1.2 wasn't currently installed?  Would you be able to clear all the 
> various places where the prefs were copied into effects etc?  That 
> seems unlikely.  Possibly the cleanest thing would be to restart 
> Audacity?  (I've no idea how you do that.)  And clearing the prefs 
> with a button for 1.3 but leaving the prefs in the registry for 1.2 
> may be easier, and a better idea?  For people who want to keep 1.2 
> intact?  Maybe (and only maybe) do this on install of a later than 1.2 
> version? 

I think we should mostly be considering what happens when 1.4 replaces
1.2. I don't think 1.4 still looking over its shoulder at 1.2 Preferences 
if you delete audacity.cfg makes much sense, especially if it convolutes 
users making a clean reset of 1.4 preferences. Does 1.3 on Mac still take 
into account the old "audacity" file in the library (for 1.2) if you delete 
.cfg?

Anyway on Windows, when 1.4 is run the first time with no .cfg file 
present, is there any way it could take common 1.2 settings from the 
Registry as now, but then set some flag in the registry or elsewhere to 
henceforth ignore 1.2 Registry settings altogether? This would then let
us reset preferences by simply deleting .cfg after exit. I think it's OK 
that a complete prefs. reset only takes place after restart  - that is 
already the case with the temporary directory. 

If not, I don't see it being overly destructive (in 1.4) to remove the 
1.2 registry settings when resetting preferences. After all we will 
be hoping the overwhelming majority will switch from 1.2 to 1.4. 
The main two things in the Registry are probably the MP3LibPath 
(not very significant as most users will need to upgrade thier 
lame_enc.dll?) and NewKeys (a bit more of a problem?).

Or when we remove the 1.2 Registry settings, could we offer to 
create a reg file they could just double-click on to merge the 1.2 
settings back into the Registry? 



Gale 




Vaughan Johnson wrote:
> http://www.audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php?title=Audacity_Preferences#Resetting_Preferences_to_defaults_2
> 
> It strikes me that these are overly complicated. I don't see it on 
> Feature Requests, but why not have a Reset All button in Prefs dialog 
> (with suitable "are you sure" alert)? We could even have it edit the 
> Registry to clear up 1.2.x settings.
> 
> - Vaughan



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