On 11/1/2024 10:47 AM, Torsten Paul via Discuss wrote: > I suppose all software > 20 Years old starts to grow settings you > always have to toggle first before using. I wonder if that's the > case with OpenSCAD for some people too. It's not quite that old yet, > but not exacly young either. I need to do a clean install to check what the defaults are. Close unwanted panes.  My usual configuration has only Editor, Console, and the main view pane.  Sometimes Customizer. I turn off all of the autocompletion / pop up syntax hint stuff; I find it distracting. Enable textmetrics :-) Enable re-docking.  Enable undocking. Turn on all of the Warnings options (Stop, check parameters range, parameter mismatch).

Depending on your experience, I would suggest just building this inside a virtual environment or virtual; machine. I currently have mine installed inside an MiniForge Python (an open-source Anaconda Python clone) environment. This allows me to fully control if and when I update various packages and dependencies. This also allows me to build a new environment to test different versions of a software package - without mucking up something that IS already working. You may be able to use the same tactics to change these parameters, but maybe not. I would have to look at the details of how the preferences are stirred. You might need a separate test account to place it into another subdirectory tree or file... Hmmm... does OpenSCAD store preferences per-release/version? Can it read in a separate configuration file? EBo -- On Fri, Nov 1, 2024 at 2:00 PM Jordan Brown via Discuss < discuss@lists.openscad.org> wrote: > On 11/1/2024 10:47 AM, Torsten Paul via Discuss wrote: > > I suppose all software > 20 Years old starts to grow settings you > always have to toggle first before using. I wonder if that's the > case with OpenSCAD for some people too. It's not quite that old yet, > but not exacly young either. > > > I need to do a clean install to check what the defaults are. > > Close unwanted panes. My usual configuration has only Editor, Console, > and the main view pane. Sometimes Customizer. > > I turn off all of the autocompletion / pop up syntax hint stuff; I find it > distracting. > > Enable textmetrics :-) > > Enable re-docking. Enable undocking. > > Turn on all of the Warnings options (Stop, check parameters range, > parameter mismatch). > > _______________________________________________ > OpenSCAD mailing list > To unsubscribe send an email to discuss-leave@lists.openscad.org >

On 11/1/2024 11:53 AM, John David wrote: > Depending on your experience, I would suggest just building this > inside a virtual environment or virtual; machine.  I currently have > mine installed inside an MiniForge Python (an open-source Anaconda > Python clone) environment. This allows me to fully control if and when > I update various packages and dependencies.  This also allows me to > build a new environment to test different versions of a software > package - without mucking up something that IS already working.  You > may be able to use the same tactics to change these parameters, but > maybe not.  I would have to look at the details of how the preferences > are stirred.  You might need a separate test account to place it into > another subdirectory tree or file... To be clear:  it isn't that I'm having a problem with different versions interfering with one another.  It's that I no longer remember what the default is, so I would need a clean install to see what I want to *change*.