> I'm not sure. Do you really mean "command line"?
> Come on, when I have to enter command line arguments in a GUI 
> application, I don't need this GUI application. Then it is simpler to 
> save the disk space and use the command line application.

Well, you are the one insisting on using INI - text - files for 
configuration ... so you enter 10+ arguments in a file, one more won't be 
any more work at all.

> By the way: In earlier versions of the Mac version, there _was_ direct 
> INI file support in the settings dialog. This direct support _has_ been 
> taken out.

It could not do many things the command-line can, in particular not handle 
more than one fixed-name INI file per scene. Most users had no use for it 
and it added a lot of clutter while benefiting very, very few, not making it 
useful to develop a whole elaborate GUI for all that flexibility of the 
command-line just to use INI files in every way possible. On the other hand, 
every Mac user using INI files likely knows the command-line anyway, making 
it a natural fit for most (even if you get an INI file elsewhere, the manual 
explains how to use it with a command-line).

If you don't like it that way, well, sorry can't help with that ;-)

	Thorsten

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