Thorsten Froehlich <tho### [at] trfde> wrote:


>> 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.

No!

With the older GUI version (I think, it was 3.0 or 3.1) I had no need to 
fiddle with the parameters in the INI file. POV-Ray did it for me.


>> 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).

But why first the denial? (see <news:43ba73be@news.povray.org>)

|>But why did they take the ini file support out of the GUI app? Yes, in
|>older versions the ini files were considered and even written by the
|>GUI app.
|
|It has not been taken out at all!


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

A clear statement could have avoided missunderstandings and annoyances. 

Now I know, that the real meaning of your declaration was: 'We have 
taken out the GUI support of INI files. Sorry, but it was difficult to 
handle and only few people needed it. But we have a simple replacement: 
Set "options.ini +GIoptions.ini" into the command line field of the 
scene file's options dialog.'

Probably, I can live with such a solution. But it's really not Mac-like!



Best regards,

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