[Xastir] YAFRODU

[James Ewen]

> The command-line option certainly would work, and work well.
> Another option would just be to have a variable in the config file
> that gets set when someone is permanently done with the startup
> help.  Hitting "Don't ever show me this dialog again" would set it,
> anything else would leave it unset.  Xastir would check it at
> startup and skip the newuser dialog if it was set.  This also gives
> an easy way for someone to undo the flag (edit the config file) to
> get back to an initial condition.  Of course just deleting the
> config file or the entire ~/.xastir directory would do the same
> thing.

Sounds like a better idea than the command line option. Windows users are 
very familiar with that type of dialog. Many programs have a tips window 
that starts up everytime you launch the program, until you click the "Don't 
show me this anymore" box.

> Several of you are asking for this newuser config dialog.  Come up
> with recommendations for the best methods to do it and we should be
> able to squeeze it in there eventually.  Perhaps a separate
> graphical program like Tk/Perl or Python might be a better way to
> go, as then someone can do it in a GUI designer and it'll be easy to
> change/update.  I can see this requiring a lot of changes.

That sounds like a plausible concept, and it could indeed require a number 
of changes until everything gets hammered out.

> Thinking out loud:  If we had a graphical program that you run
> before you run Xastir (or it gets run by Xastir if the
> aforementioned flag was not set) and had a default world map, would
> that be enough?  Do we need more yet?

That's an open ended question. I would think that having the setup program 
add any requested maps would be good. If we are going to include a setup 
program, then we could do without a default World map. Having the default 
World map was just a stop gap measure to ensure something other than a blank 
screen showed up for the new user. The setup program could possibly add not 
only a World map, but might possibly have a couple more detailed maps of 
commonly requested areas of the world. It would be up to the user to chase 
down detailed maps of their local area on their own. That's the learning 
portion for you die hards!

What kinds of things can be preset for the new user in the setup program?

James
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