Re: Does adding bookmarks update the configuration ?

----- Original Message -----
> Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2008 11:29:34 +1000
> De: <tpgww@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> À: emelfm2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sujet: Re: Does adding bookmarks update the configuration ?

> On Wed, 3 Sep 2008 17:14:57 -0400
> Grégory SCHMITT <gy.schmitt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > > Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2008 15:56:12 -0500
> > > De: Adam Krolnik <adam.krolnik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > À: emelfm2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > Sujet: Does adding bookmarks update the configuration ?
> 
> > > It appears that bookmarks are getting lost when I have two
> > > emelfm2 windows open.
> > > 
> > > If I add a bookmark in one then attend to another emelfm2 (newly
> > > opened I believe)
> > > and then close it, I lose the bookmark I just added.
> > 
> > As you've probably noted, bookmarks are not updated in real-time,
> > but after emelfm2 is restarted.
> > 
> > In other words, if you start two sessions of emelfm2 (1 and 2), edit
> > your bookmarks in 1, close 1 first and then 2, it makes sense to me
> > that bookmarks from 2 will overwrite 1 when 2 is closed.
> 
> I'd put it like this: in-session bookmark changes are not saved to
> disk (config file) until the next "OK/Commit" in a config dialog, or
> session-end. If you are configured to refresh current configuration
> upon detecting change of config file (and the default is to do this),
> then a saved 2nd session will in effect overwrite a 1st session.
> 
> Maybe we should change that default ?

Is the default behaviour to have two different sessions of emelfm2 ? I
honestly do not believe that, so my suggestion is to leave it as it is.
Furthermore, many users will change the configuration file by calling 
the config panel, not by editing the contents of the file directly.

-- 
Grégory SCHMITT <mailto:gy.schmitt@xxxxxxxxx>


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