Bug 225726

Summary:	Cantor doesn't honor "Make this the default backend" setting
Product:	[Applications] cantor	Reporter:	albert <alberthilbert>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Alexander Rieder <alexanderrieder>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	jangerrit, roland.leissa
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
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Description albert 2010-02-06 15:12:55 UTC

Version:           0.1 (using 4.3.95 (KDE 4.3.95 (KDE 4.4 RC2)), Kubuntu packages)
Compiler:          cc
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.31-17-generic

At every Cantor start-up I'm asked to choose which back-end I want to use even if, in the previous session, I chose a back-end and I checked the "Make this the default backend" option.

Comment 1 Alexander Rieder 2010-02-06 23:16:39 UTC

the "default backend" option (at the moment) doesn't work the way you immagine (always use the default backend), but it is only used to preselect your favourite backend in the backend choose dialog (so you can only press enter).

Maybe the concept of default backend (and the appropriate gui) needs some rethinking.

Comment 2 Roland Leißa 2010-08-31 10:34:25 UTC

I also thought this is a bug. Can you change the behaviour so the user is not annoyed by this dialog any more?

Comment 3 Alexander Rieder 2010-09-01 01:12:19 UTC

Changing the behavior is not that easy, as with the dialog you loose the possibility to ever use a different backend again. It would require some more reworking of the ui to make this dialog go away.

Comment 4 Roland Leißa 2010-09-02 01:34:30 UTC

ATM you can go to
Settings -> Configure Cantor -> Default Backend


Besides that it would be nice if the File menu will be reworked like this:
Instead of the first "New..." entry there should be two options:
1. "New Octave Session" (or whatever your default backend is)
2. "New Session" which popups a menu with all available backends.


The popup dialog is really annoying IMHO.

Anyway, Cantor is really going to rock so keep up the good work.

Comment 5 Jan Gerrit Marker 2011-01-06 13:46:03 UTC

Fixed in revision 1211405.
http://websvn.kde.org/?view=revision&revision=1211405

Comment 6 Roland Leißa 2011-01-12 12:05:57 UTC

Thanks for fixing. Do we see this fix in KDE 4.6? Appearantly, this fix is not in RC2.

Comment 7 Alexander Rieder 2011-01-13 18:33:03 UTC

unfortunately, this fix was too late for 4.6, you will see it in 4.7