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Show profile options in GUI, not only as switches for easier tweaking #355

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago
What should be implemented?

GUI elements corresponding to archive options should be set to the appropriate 
value when a profile is chosen. For example, when the profile contains -ld192m, 
the Limit Memory / Decompression checkbox should be checked, and the combobox 
filled with the value 192m. In Encryption, when -p? switch is present, the Use 
Password checkbox should be checked etc.  

Why it will be useful?

This way one must either know the switches or read documentation to find 
meanings. Often the easiest way is to just check and uncheck options to see 
which switches they invoke, and understand profile options according to that. 
Simply setting the GUI elements to the appropriate values would take the 
guesswork out of the picture and make it easier to tweak profiles as needed. 
For people that will never use the CLI version, that's even more useful. 

Another thing is, if options would be "loaded" that way when a profile is 
chosen, it would be easy to tweak; this way one has to set (and find) all the 
options manually again even if a profile was chosen and only one option was 
manually set.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by akro...@gmail.com on 26 Apr 2013 at 2:05