Hello Tom I would like to suggest several switches that, if implemented, would much improve the testing experience and potentially raise the usefulness of bug reports. First, introduce a '--vanilla' CLI option. This would allow to run emel with factory defaults, while upon exit it would not attempt to save its config. This would allow ruling out (or not) configuration differences when testing for a particular issue. To give an example, R [1] comes with a '--vanilla' and bug reports are accepted only when the issue can be reproduced in a vanilla session: this rules out messed up user configs, or code errors when using default options. This is how the option is described in 'man R': --vanilla Combine --no-save, --no-restore, --no-site-file, --no-init-file and --no-environ Second, add a '--buildopts' CLI option. For any given binary, this option would be able to provide the user with the list of options originally used to build the app. This can be useful when you have several versions of R spread around---one installed via the package manager, and considering that I'm also a packager, then I can have several versions using the same prefix but built with different options, making it hard to know which one is installed at any given moment; and another one built from source---or when, as a user, you simply don't know how the binary was built since you installed it from your distro. In any case this info is useful when reporting bugs, and I'm systematically unsure of what were the compile-time options of my current build. Similar info is provided in Midori's [2] 'about:version' page. And third, add a '--builddeps' CLI option. For any given binary, this option would report the actual libraries used at compilation time. Again, potentially useful for debugging and quickly understanding the differences between two systems. This info is provided in Midori's 'about:version' page, but even better: it contains the info on build-time and run-time libraries and versions. Below is an example of such output. What do you think about adding such functionality? Regards Liviu [1] http://www.r-project.org/ [2] http://twotoasts.de/index.php/midori/ ### Midori output ### Midori 0.4.6 (de.twotoasts.midori_986f8b3ab180c759ab5db95cc6f00d33__0) GTK+ 2.20.1 (2.20.1) Glib 2.24.1 (2.24.1) WebKitGTK+ 1.2.7 (1.2.7) libsoup 2.30.2 cairo 1.8.10 (1.8.10) granite No libnotify 0.4.5 single instance libunique 1.1.6 Platform X11; Linux x86_64 -- Users can unsubscribe from the list by sending email to emelfm2-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the subject field or by logging into the web interface.