Start using user-specific config files

[Philip Taylor]

Editing system.cfg is nasty, because you get merge conflicts and accidental commits etc. So people should always use user-specific configuration, which looks like it's already implemented in data/profiles/default/settings/user.cfg. So: make sure that actually works, delete the non-default profiles because they're confusing and unneccessary, and update all the relevant documentation (and add a comment in system.cfg) to say to edit user.cfg.

[Philip Taylor]

Fixed in r6919.

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Milestone Open Source Release deleted

[elexis]

From 2008-05-31-QuakeNet-#wfg-Meeting.log:

19:01 < matei> hey I have another question: is it possible to use user.cfg to override system.cfg (and is it what it already does?)
19:01 < matei> people keep editing and commiting system.cfg
19:01 < matei> I would want to be able to tell them "create a user.cfg and edit that"
19:02 < matei> I believe AOM had this model
19:02 < janwas> matei: i believe that is the original plan. not sure if that works ATM..
19:02 < matei> okay, might be a small thing to fix before an open source release
19:06 < matei> and btw user.cfg doesn't work

According to the ticket description, this commit fixed user.cfg.

Everything we can see in the code, especially introduced in that commit, and circumstancial evidence such as trac tickets and IRC logs indicates that people just had a habit of edting the previous system.cfg (former default.cfg).