Re: Bug#426581: meshlab - anyone still working on this

[Ian Jackson <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk>]

Paolo Cignoni writes ("Re: Bug#426581: meshlab - anyone still working on this"):
> We use QT with QSettings mechanism for saving config files in a portable way

Can these files be written other than by Qt ?  Our configuration
management systems often need to write to configuration in situations
where the application in question is not available.  Often there will
not be a graphical display and sometimes not even a user to interact
with (eg, preloading for automated operating system installs).

> (i would like to avoid to put any OS specific code inside meshlab)

I understand that view.

If you make a hook that we can use to control the behaviour, we can
happily add any necessary Debian-specific code to our version.

> The mechanism i am going to implement is the following
> An asking dialog popup at first run.
> The result of the dialog will be saved in a persistent place using qsettings.
> If this value is already set No dialog will never popup (so an
> installer can set these values before first run)

I think this isn't the right answer for Debian.  We wouldn't want it
popping up its own dialogues.  But it sounds like it would provide a
place for us to plumb in our own configuration.  So if you do it that
way then that's fine by us but we will adjust the configuration
arrangements a bit for our users.  I hope that's OK with you.

The beauty of Free Software is that we can all have the version we
want.

Regards,
Ian.