The other defaults need to be reviewed. The new items in particular, but also the old ones.
The new Toolbar style defaults to Use default preference. This sounds utterly ambiguous.
It seems like the default should be the newbie option: Both text and icons
In the other defaults, I would suggest reconsidering:
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;;fullscreen=0
Fullscreen defaults to False
-
;;grampletbar-close=0
Having close gadgets on gramplets by default
-
;;backup-on-exit=1
Let users turn on backup AFTER they choose a destination
Options found in the Preferences that should be discussed:
Data
- Age display precision : Years (shouldn’t greatest precision be default)
General
- Display Tip of the Day = False (should default to True for novices)
Import
- both tagging and sourcing should be the default. They are easy to remove but impossible to backfill.
Warnings
- no warnings should be disabled. (There’s an option to turn off the warning in each dialog.)
;; Gramps key file
;; Automatically created at 2025/02/11 15:20:02
[behavior]
;;addmedia-image-dir=''
;;addmedia-relative-path=0
;;addons-allow-install=0
;;addons-projects=[['Gramps', 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gramps-project/addons/master/gramps60', True]]
;;addons-url='https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gramps-project/addons/master/gramps60'
;;autoload=0
;;avg-generation-gap=20
;;check-for-addon-update-types=['new']
;;check-for-addon-updates=0
;;date-about-range=50
;;date-after-range=50
;;date-before-range=50
;;do-not-show-previously-seen-addon-updates=1
;;generation-depth=15
;;immediate-warn=0
;;last-check-for-addon-updates='1970/01/01'
;;max-age-prob-alive=110
;;max-sib-age-diff=20
;;min-generation-years=13
;;owner-warn=0
;;pop-plugin-status=0
;;previously-seen-addon-updates=[]
;;recent-export-type=3
;;runcheck=0
;;spellcheck=0
;;startup=0
;;surname-guessing=0
translator-needed=0
;;use-tips=0
;;web-search-url='http://google.com/#&q=%(text)s'
;;welcome=100
[colors]
;;border-family=['#cccccc', '#252525']
;;border-family-divorced=['#ff7373', '#720b0b']
;;border-female-alive=['#861f69', '#261111']
;;border-female-dead=['#000000', '#000000']
;;border-male-alive=['#1f4986', '#171d26']
;;border-male-dead=['#000000', '#000000']
;;border-other-alive=['#2a5f16', '#26a269']
;;border-other-dead=['#000000', '#000000']
;;border-unknown-alive=['#8e5801', '#8e5801']
;;border-unknown-dead=['#000000', '#000000']
;;family=['#eeeeee', '#454545']
;;family-civil-union=['#eeeeee', '#454545']
;;family-divorced=['#ffdede', '#5c3636']
;;family-married=['#eeeeee', '#454545']
;;family-unknown=['#eeeeee', '#454545']
;;family-unmarried=['#eeeeee', '#454545']
;;female-alive=['#feccf0', '#62242D']
;;female-dead=['#feccf0', '#3a292b']
;;home-person=['#bbe68a', '#304918']
;;male-alive=['#b8cee6', '#1f344a']
;;male-dead=['#b8cee6', '#2d3039']
;;other-alive=['#94ef9e', '#285b27']
;;other-dead=['#94ef9e', '#062304']
;;scheme=0
;;unknown-alive=['#f3dbb6', '#75507B']
;;unknown-dead=['#f3dbb6', '#35103b']
[csv]
;;delimiter=','
;;dialect='excel'
[database]
;;autobackup=0
;;backend='sqlite'
;;backup-on-exit=1
;;backup-path='C:\\Users\\test'
;;compress-backup=1
;;host=''
;;path='C:\\Users\\test\\AppData\\Local\\gramps\\grampsdb'
;;port=''
[export]
;;proxy-order=[['privacy', 0], ['living', 0], ['person', 0], ['note', 0], ['reference', 0]]
[geography]
;;center-lat=0.0
;;center-lon=0.0
;;lock=0
;;map_service=1
;;path=''
;;personal-map=''
;;show_cross=0
;;use-keypad=1
;;zoom=0
;;zoom_when_center=12
[interface]
dbmanager-height=379
;;dbmanager-horiz-position=12
;;dbmanager-vert-position=85
;;dbmanager-width=780
;;dont-ask=0
;;filter=0
;;fullscreen=0
;;grampletbar-close=0
;;hide-lds=0
;;ignore-gexiv2=0
;;ignore-osmgpsmap=0
;;ignore-pil=0
;;main-window-height=500
;;main-window-horiz-position=15
;;main-window-vert-position=10
;;main-window-width=775
;;mapservice='OpenStreetMap'
;;open-with-default-viewer=0
;;pedview-layout=0
;;pedview-show-images=1
;;pedview-show-marriage=0
;;pedview-show-unknown-people=0
;;pedview-tree-direction=2
;;pedview-tree-size=5
;;place-name-height=100
;;place-name-width=450
;;sidebar-text=1
;;size-checked=0
;;statusbar=1
;;surname-box-height=150
;;toolbar-addons=1
;;toolbar-clipboard=1
;;toolbar-on=1
;;toolbar-preference=1
;;toolbar-reports=1
;;toolbar-style=0
;;toolbar-tools=1
;;treemodel-cache-size=1000
;;view=1
;;view-categories=['Dashboard', 'People', 'Relationships', 'Families', 'Ancestry', 'Events', 'Places', 'Geography', 'Sources', 'Citations', 'Repositories', 'Media', 'Notes']
[paths]
;;quick-backup-directory='C:\\Users\\test'
;;quick-backup-filename='%(filename)s_%(year)d-%(month)02d-%(day)02d.%(extension)s'
;;recent-export-dir='C:\\Users\\test'
;;recent-file=''
;;recent-import-dir='C:\\Users\\test'
;;report-directory='C:\\Users\\test'
;;website-cal-uri=''
;;website-cms-uri=''
;;website-directory='C:\\Users\\test'
;;website-extra-page-name=''
;;website-extra-page-uri=''
[plugin]
;;addonplugins=[]
;;hiddenplugins=[]
[preferences]
;;age-after-death=1
;;age-display-precision=1
;;age-rounded-year=1
;;calendar-format-input=0
;;calendar-format-report=0
;;cite-plugin='cite-legacy'
;;coord-format=0
;;cprefix='C%04d'
;;date-format=0
;;default-source=0
;;eprefix='E%04d'
;;family-relation-type=3
;;family-warn=1
;;february-29=0
;;fprefix='F%04d'
;;hide-ep-msg=0
;;invalid-date-format='<b>%s</b>'
;;iprefix='I%04d'
last-view='dashboardview'
last-views=['dashboardview', '', '', '', '', '', '', '', '', '', '', '', '']
;;name-format=1
;;no-given-text='[Missing Given Name]'
;;no-record-text='[Missing Record]'
;;no-surname-text='[Missing Surname]'
;;nprefix='N%04d'
;;online-maps=0
;;oprefix='O%04d'
;;paper-metric=0
;;paper-preference='Letter'
;;patronimic-surname=0
;;place-auto=1
;;place-format=0
;;pprefix='P%04d'
;;private-given-text='[Living]'
;;private-record-text='[Private Record]'
;;private-surname-text='[Living]'
;;quick-backup-include-mode=0
;;rprefix='R%04d'
;;sprefix='S%04d'
;;tag-on-import=0
;;tag-on-import-format='Imported %Y/%m/%d %H:%M:%S'
;;use-last-view=0
[researcher]
;;researcher-addr=''
;;researcher-city=''
;;researcher-country=''
;;researcher-email=''
;;researcher-locality=''
;;researcher-name=''
;;researcher-phone=''
;;researcher-postal=''
;;researcher-state=''
[spacing]
dbman=[22.605613425925927, 7.595486111111112, 14.105902777777779]
[test]
;;january='January'
[utf8]
;;baptism-symbol='~'
;;birth-symbol='*'
;;buried-symbol='[]'
;;cremated-symbol='⚱'
;;dead-symbol='✝'
;;death-symbol=2
;;divorce-symbol='o|o'
;;engaged-symbol='o'
;;in-use=0
;;killed-symbol='x'
;;marriage-symbol='oo'
;;partner-symbol='o-o'
;;selected-font=''
