Design and Layout:Defaults

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Defaults


Good Defaults

Guidelines

  • Before each release, go through your software and test the default settings.


Session Defaults

Guidelines

  • Remember user settings among sessions (e.g. in Krita: It is helpful to save setttings like units, recent or user-defined colors, and other options that are likely to be re-used. It is not helpful to save operation modes such as fixed-ratio selection or substract selection)
  • Remember recent and last used files among sessions (e.g. recent files menu, playlist in music players, ...).


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