Detect read-only `user_settings.conf` #164

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opened 2023-12-05 14:00:02 +01:00 by lucas · 0 comments

lucas commented

2023-12-05 14:00:02 +01:00

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No idea how people manage to get there while being clueless about it, but many users in the Modders Discord do have the "issue" where their user_settings.conf is set to read-only, thereby any changes to the settings in-game seemingly "reset" on the next start.

A little QoL for those people would be to show a warning message, in case they didn't actually want this.

It would definitely need some kind of "don't show again", since there are people that want this setting legitimately. Maybe make it a "don't show again for a while", which then persists a timestamp (now + 1 month). Then we check that timestamp for the next time the warning is to be shown.

No idea how people manage to get there while being clueless about it, but many users in the Modders Discord do have the "issue" where their `user_settings.conf` is set to read-only, thereby any changes to the settings in-game seemingly "reset" on the next start. A little QoL for those people would be to show a warning message, in case they didn't actually want this. It would definitely need some kind of "don't show again", since there are people that want this setting legitimately. Maybe make it a "don't show again for a while", which then persists a timestamp (`now + 1 month`). Then we check that timestamp for the next time the warning is to be shown.