Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft downloads and --download-dir - Use of QSettings by the Qt launcher

[James T. <zak...@ma...>]

> On 24 Mar 2016, at 12:42, James Turner <zak...@ma...> wrote:
> 
> Right, I just checked and we do also pass a (non-default) download-dir through form the launcher to FGFS via the ‘—download-dir’. What’s missing is that the launcher and the in-sim aircraft package system aren’t using that path for the package root, but I can and will fix this.

I’ve just pushed a tranche of fixes in this area. download-dir setting is used consistently by both the launcher and FGFS, and changes to the setting in the launcher are picked up immediately.

This does expose some UI issues around the default catalog which I also need to investigate, and some related bad behaviour when the FG version changes and the existing default catalog doesn’t have a matching version. The problem is the set of installed catalogs depends on the download dir, it changes when you adjust it. So you can lose the official catalog unless you realise and click the ‘restore default catalog’ button I added.

I’m debating have the launcher nag if the default catalog is not found, but I don’t want to pester users who explicitly remove the default. Trying to balance ‘keep things as foolproof as possible for novice users’ with ‘not annoy power users’, as usually. Any ideas how best to handle that without cluttering the GUI are welcome.

Kind regards,
James