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Subject:Re: Unset? Can that be a verb? From:Janice Gelb <Janice -dot- Gelb -at- Sun -dot- COM> To:Jenny Greenleaf <jennysubs -at- mac -dot- com> Date:Sun, 28 Feb 2010 08:49:27 +1100
On Feb 28, 2010 8:27AM, Jenny Greenleaf wrote:
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> To make it more complicated, you can also specify None as a default, which is probably what they're trying to get to with "Unset". There is a place to set the default config to NONE, but it is in a part of the interface that is very restricted and likely not available to people using the part that contains the "Unset" menu.
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Setting "None" as the default means no settings are
set as the default, which is different than deciding
that a previously set default should no longer be the
default.
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> What is needed is a way to clear a setting as default without setting anything else as default. So, in this context, an "unset" is needed. I just don't want to call it that. I suppose I could ask the developers to list "none" as one of the configuration options. That would make it clear what you are setting.
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Set as Default
Remove as Default
[checkmark] Default
[X] Default
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