I do declare
war upon the nature of changing defaults.
It is forever unacceptable. Instead we
make things customizable. I
think your solution below is good.
> Perhaps a better approach is to create a
configuration option for the default
then everybody could be
happy. There is no configuration dialog I know about for
KFind. The user's kfindrc is rather sparse and I don't know
of any global kfind configuration file. Perhaps KFind should
remember the last chosen options in the Properties tab and
save them, much like is already done with the file path
history.
This seems suitable. I really prefer the "remembering"
the last settings
as apposed to "saving" settings. however my
app is left, is how it should come back.
I agree with Calvin on this. Amnesiac applications =
bad. Applications that remember what you want = good. And
altering defaults is to be avoided unless there is a
*really* good reason founded on more than personal preference.
A "make this search the default" checkbox might be the best
of both worlds, if we can find room for it in the UI.
That would allow a personal search default setup while also
giving the ability to clear out elaborate but atypical
searches without having to reset each parameter individually.
Just leaving it always checked would result in simple
memorization behaviour.
I created bug report 955 to address the issue.
I'm changing the defaults for myself.
Darrell