[openlp-dev] Changes to the default settings

[Mattias Põldaru]

Two replies below. Otherwise I mostly agree with Raoul.

Mattias


19.03.2017 02:14 Raoul Snyman kirjutas:
>> *Enable: Remote plugin by default*
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> Fine by me. Only reason we disabled it was because of one particularly 
> loud and obnoxious user.
I have always thought this was disabled by default because otherwise 
windows firewall will ask on first start if you want to allow OpenLP 
through (which looks bad unless you really know what it's used for and 
trust the authors).


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>> *Enable: Unblank display when sending items to Live *
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> Not sure if I agree on this. I prefer users not being surprised. I'm 
> not sure this is such a big issue, can you point me to where people 
> have complained about it?
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>> *Enable: Unblank display when changing slide in Live*
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> Again, I'm not sure about that. I'd need to see a significant number 
> of people objecting to the current default.
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>> *Change number of recent service files to display from 4 to 10*
>
> Fine by me, I never use this.
Why can this be changed? There should be hard-coded default.


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>> *Enable: Double-click to send items straight to Live*
>> *Enable: Preview items when clicked in Library*
>> *Enable: Preview items when clicked in Service*
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> These I vehemently disagree with. There are still people using XP and 
> I know from experience that this setting makes OpenLP DOG DOG DOG DOG 
> SLOW on old computers. Also, it's completely unexpected behaviour. Why 
> does double-clicking in the media manager make the item go live? That 
> just doesn't make sense, especially with the service manager right 
> there too.
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>> *Default service name:*
>> Currently: Service %Y-%m-%d %H-%M = Service 2017-03-18 15-38
>> - Do we need to have the clock here?
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> I agree.
>
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>> - Enable/disable whatever works the best based on OS.
>> (There may be differences.) For example VLC is disabled by default,
>> which means no video playback support.
>
> Way easier said than done. Also, the more platform-specific stuff we 
> introduce, the more potential for corner-case bugs.
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>> *Enable: Update service from song edit*
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> Agreed.
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>> *Disable: Show "Written by:" in footer for unspecified authors*
>
> Is this just the text? That's probably fine.
>
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>> *Enable: Display "©" symbol before copyright info*
>
> Sounds plausible.
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>> *Bibles Library: Make default layout style: "Verse per line"*
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> Works for me.
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>> *Enable: Clicking on the current slide advances to the next effect*
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> This is already an option? We don't need to write more code? Then 
> that's fine (if a little weird).
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>> *Enable: Start new Live media automatically*
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> Disagree, I don't think this expected behaviour.
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>> I think it would be a good idea to combine them and enable the 
>> setting by
>> default.
>
> Fine by me, but this would have to involve some clever migration code.
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