Well, you can, of course, just codify it.  Here's my
MyInstaller>>#configure, which I call from its class-side #initialize.
Feel free to copy and tweak as you please.

By using a hierarchy of Installers, each automatically configures the code
AND Preferences appropriately for that context.

Installer
  MaInstaller                   "generic framework stuff, very few
preference settings"
    MaCommercialInst     "Proprietary, some options set"
       CmmInstaller           "Personal. Many preferences, my fully custom
IDE"

It's a nice setup, indeed.  :)

 - Chris

On Wed, Dec 25, 2019 at 4:56 AM karl ramberg <karlramberg at gmail.com> wrote:

> It could nice if we could use Monticello for saving and loading personal
> preferences also :-)
>
> Best,
> Karl
>
> On Wed, 25 Dec 2019 at 00:29, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:
>
>> There's an extra complication I notice after trying out my submission for
>> saving/loading preferences - if you click on the 'default' button in the
>> PreferencesBrowser you get a strange set of options derived from
>> Preferences class>>#chooseInitialSettings (including a very different set
>> of halo icons)
>> This uses the default values set in each preference see Preferences
>> class>>#alternateHandlesLook for one example.  In at least a few cases
>> these don't agree with the values set in ReleaseBuilder
>> class>>#setPreferences.
>>
>> So we have a default setup created when building the release, a default
>> set made from the code versions and some set via pragmas. And some via
>> themes - which can get set via the dock Extras->Themes & Colors menu, or
>> differently via the world->appearance->choose set of preferences and
>> probably other ways.
>>
>>  I think maybe we should try to simplify this for the next release...
>>
>> tim
>> --
>> tim Rowledge; tim at rowledge.org; http://www.rowledge.org/tim
>> "How many Motie Mediators does it take to chage a lightbulb?”
>> "Are you insane? Only Crazy Eddie would want to change *anything*!"
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
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