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

[Dan Dennedy]

On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 12:12 PM, Mads Bondo Dydensborg
<mads at dydensborg.dk> wrote:
> 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.

Another way is to change the key name whenever the default changes in
a major way (not simply an enhancement). This is virtually an
automatic reset for that field - should be easy, no?

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