[fpc-pascal] Lazarus settings and roaming profiles in Windows

[Jürgen Hestermann]

> Jürgen Hestermann, how often do you change your working machine?

Well, I seldom change it and I would not even need the Lazarus settings 
on other machines because I did not install it on these machines.

But our system works the following (I don't know whether it is specific 
to our company or whether Windows offers this way of working too):

If I log on to a machine a Windows user does not exist for me (yet). I 
log on to Novell Netware first, then a local (duplicate) of my user is 
created on the local Windows machine. Then the profile is copied from my 
(Novell) user home dir to the local (Windows) user. If I log off, the 
local profile is saved (partely) to the (Novell) home dir and then the 
local Windows user is deleted completely (including the profile!). So if 
I log on the next day all parts of the profile that were not saved are gone!

I think it would be much better if the Lazarus settings would be saved 
to the Lazarus directory by default. Having 2 or more people sharing the 
same machine for Lazarus developement would be very seldom I suppose. 
And if so, they would be able to use different settings (if needed) by 
using a command line option in the same way as people like me have to 
use them now when having roaming profiles. At least no one would lose 
any settings this way. It could just happen that people have to search 
for (command line) options to cope with multiple settings.


Jürgen Hestermann.