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Need to remove legacy settings that only serve to confuse donors #1130

Open jcoffland opened 10 years ago

jcoffland commented 10 years ago
Trac Data
Ticket 1130
Reported by @7im-
Status new
Component FAHClient
Priority 5
Keywords legacy cleanup old settings confusing
  1. No such thing as SMP any more.
  2. fold anon = true - rarely does anyone fold as anonymous, and once they enter a name, that setting should go away.
  3. still folding on a single cpu core when the client is installed on a 4 core system.
  4. Web GUI setting in Windows that won't stop the client from launching with the Web GUI. Still need to edit a shortcut? Then no need for that setting. 5.
jcoffland commented 10 years ago

Comment by @kbernhagen For number 4, the issue is that most command line switches (which are implemented as options) are not hidden/obscured, nor filtered out of the FAHControl gui. These include such items as child and respawn.

That said, there has been a request for what to try to open when starting the client being a configurable option, without using any shortcut command line switch.

A more general problem is that people see things in the expert tab with no description of what they are, if they are supposed to be user-configured, nor what the valid values are. Few people are going to run the client with --help to find out.