Re: .cthumbrc behavior

	You can also set arguments through the command line.
	I actually never used .cthumbrc. However, I agree with you on how
the cthumb should be behaving.

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Artur Kedzierski                    || [email protected]
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On Wed, 14 May 2003, Terry Gliedt wrote:

> I began documentation on .cthumbrc and discovered it did not behave as I
> expected. I wanted to start a conversation on how people think this
> SHOULD behave.
>
> First some background. The idea is that Cthumb has a set of attributes,
> coded in the @options table. This covers a lot of things. The values for
> these attributes can come from (1) the album file, (2) your .cthumbrc
> file and (3) your theme (theme.conf).
>
> I'm not exactly sure of the other these get applied, but here's what
> **I** expected (this is not how it DOES happen).  I expected when one
> creates an album file, your .cthumbrc file attributes would be applied,
> providing a set of defaults.  So for instance, I always want
> 'AutoSlideShow 1', so I expected to put that in my .cthumbrc file and it
> would force this to be set in my album and not just put there as a
> comment (as is the case now).
>
> Running Cthumb on an existing album file, I expect only theme attributes
> to be applied - and only if they were not set in the album. (i.e. apply
> theme attributes to the program defaults, THEN apply the album
> attributes).  I don't think the .cthumrc file should be used again in
> this case.
>
> There are some rules about what attributes can be set in what place. A
> small set are for themes only and cannot be in the .cthumbrc file.
> Anything CAN be set in the album file.
>
> What do you all think?
>
>
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