[Applications/Vision] Vision settings reset on Haiku upgrade

[deejam]

The settings for Vision is reset after each upgrade of Haiku. Vision is a 3rd party application, so I don't know if this can be fixed by the Haiku project by re-packaging Vision (or whatever is done with the source).

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How to reproduce

• Change some settings in Vision (for example the Preferred Nicks.
• Upgrade Haiku
• The settings is now reset to the default.

[anevilyak]

The problem is that the upgrade currently just unzips all the packages. Since the Vision package currently contains the aforementioned default settings file in order to get people started, that results in the user's settings file being overwritten by the one from the zip. I don't really see a way around that with the current installation method, short of splitting the settings into a separate package.

[scottmc]

What about giving the default settings a different filename and then have Vision only use those settings if the normal settings file is not present?

[axeld]

A relatively simple solution would be to let Vision differentiate between user and common settings; the zip would install the settings in /boot/common/settings, and Vision would by default store it in /boot/home/config/settings.

[anevilyak]

This one should no longer be an issue, Vision now keeps a separate InitialSettings file in its app dir that's used as a template if the config/settings variant doesn't yet exist.