> > I do declare war upon the nature of changing defaults. > It is forever unacceptable. Instead we make things customizable. I > think your solution below is good. > > > > > Perhaps a better approach is to create a > configuration option for the default then everybody could be > happy. There is no configuration dialog I know about for > KFind. The user's kfindrc is rather sparse and I don't know > of any global kfind configuration file. Perhaps KFind should > remember the last chosen options in the Properties tab and > save them, much like is already done with the file path > history. > > > > > > > This seems suitable. I really prefer the "remembering" > the last settings as apposed to "saving" settings. however my > app is left, is how it should come back. > > I agree with Calvin on this. Amnesiac applications = > bad. Applications that remember what you want = good. And > altering defaults is to be avoided unless there is a > *really* good reason founded on more than personal preference. > > A "make this search the default" checkbox might be the best > of both worlds, if we can find room for it in the UI. > That would allow a personal search default setup while also > giving the ability to clear out elaborate but atypical > searches without having to reset each parameter individually. > Just leaving it always checked would result in simple > memorization behaviour. I created bug report 955 to address the issue. I'm changing the defaults for myself. Darrell