Nightly Subsurface AppImage for most Linux distributions

Lubomir I. Ivanov neolit123 at gmail.com
Sun Oct 18 11:31:12 PDT 2015


On 18 October 2015 at 19:50, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:
>
> So we are back to "the shipped templates stay immutable" and the user adds
> additional templates. I thought we decided against that. But I see your point
> that with your logic the users will get to benefit from added templates.
>
> In my version (you can edit and save with the existing name) the number of
> templates shown doesn't go up. And I wonder how often and significantly we'll
> change the shipped templates. And in either case, the change doesn't magically
> get merged into the modifications... so I think I like mine better.
>
> The shipped templates stay where they are and don't get overwritten. If the
> user edits one of the templates, then the modified template is written into
> <systemdefaultdir>/pinting_templates/<same template name> by default,
> but the user can opt to pick a different name.
>
> If the user keeps the name, this is the template they see instead of the
> shipped template of that name. So the template loading logic needs to
> be modified to FIRST look at the <systemdefaultdir> location, and then
> at the others if there's no such file there.
>
> Makes sense?
>

it does and i will attempt it.

lubomir
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