[Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>]

Guy Harris wrote:

> On Feb 4, 2004, at 1:12 PM, John McDermott wrote:
>
> > BTW, I'd make them personal so a user can change them easily.
>
>
> Making them "personal" only works for "personal" installations of 
> Ethereal on systems where the installer has a notion of "personal" 
> installations.
>
> That's true on Windows, but not, as far as I know, for most UNIXes.
>
> Fortunately, as Richard Urwin noted, the personal color filter set 
> overrides any system color filter set (which is a GOOD THING, as it 
> means you can get rid of global color filters you *don't* want).  This 
> means that you don't have to make the installed color filters personal 
> - if the user wants to change them, they just edit their color filter 
> set and save the set, and they now have a personal set that is used 
> instead of the system set.
I hardly agree, that it's a must to have a possibility to overwrite 
*all* of the default settings.

If the file in the "personal dir" will overwrite the whole file in the 
"global dir" on any platform, it seems to be appropriate for all the 
example files to put in the "global dir" on all platforms.

So a user can set his settings, he/she will not be affected by the 
global settings.

And of course an installer should *never* change the personal config files.

Regards, ULFL