[Kdenlive-devel] Ask for users to delete their kdenliverc on upgrade?

[Mads Bondo Dydensborg]

Hi there

There is a specific issue with http://www.kdenlive.org/mantis/view.php?id=424 
that touches on something more general. In the specific issue, a wrong 
setting for capture from v4l will have been stored in the users kdenliverc 
and will therefore be used after an upgrade.

How should this be solved? One solution is to ask users to delete their 
kdenliverc when updating - not very elegant, but seen before. Another would 
be to update the users rc file. A third is to never store a value that is 
default into a setting file, only store *non* default settings.

A fourth is to just ignore it :-) At this point, I think we have better things 
to use our energy on, but perhaps we could implement 
the "never-store-default-values" from some point in the future.

Comments?

Regards

Mads

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