Survex 1.1.3 test version uploaded

[Andy Waddington]

On Tuesday 2005-09-13 04:18, Olly Betts wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 08:45:41PM +0100, Andy Waddington wrote:
> > Even some of the most rudimentary of computer games on even the oldest
> > of hardware (things like Tetris....) allow me to choose what key performs
> > what function, and remembers what I chose for the next time I want to
> > play the game. Why can't the Survex programs do likewise ?
> 
> Because that would be a disaster on a shared machine on an expedition.
> Which is a rather common usage scenario for Survex.

But surely you would store the bindings in /home/<user>/<whatever> on
a per user basis ? Then when each user logged in to his or her desktop
he/she'd get the preferred bindings. Just like you get your own choice
of window furniture (lots of folk find my machine unintuitive if they try
to do something without logging on as themselves because the
window close button is on the left, like RISC OS). Under Linux there should
be no excuse for taking the Consumer-Windows-esque view that "everyone is 
root".   If you don't want to log out of the whole desktop, then surely you
would do "su me -c survex" or whatever to start the program with your
personal bindings ?

Otherwise, people are going to find a way to reconfigure the thing, and
less tech-literate people are going to find that they have no idea how
to configure it back - now that really would be a disaster on expo ...

Andy