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Subject: Re: Proposal: do not show up the dialog(1) by default?
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Am 23.05.2013 07:45, schrieb Baptiste Daroussin:
> hi,
> 
> A lot of people seems to be complaining about the configuration dialog popping
> up all the time.
> 
> What if we change the default behaviour to not pop up the dialog each time there
> is a changed option but only when the user explicitly type make config?
> 
> Just a proposal, please give your opinion.
> 
> Of course make config-recursive behaviour won't change.

This would subvert the whole options story.

I propose to not show the dialog for standard options, such as DOCS (née
PORTDOCS), EXAMPLES, NLS and thereabouts.

And IF we show-on-changed, we need to highlight the changed options and
place the cursor on the first displayed one, to not waste everybody's time.

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