[X2Go-Dev] x2goclient.exe - Saving session settings to registry

[newsgroups.mail2 at stefanbaur.de]

Hi List,

is there any particular reason why x2goclient.exe will save session 
settings to the registry and will only use a "sessions" file when called 
with "--portable"?
Using the "sessions" file is the default for Linux and AFAIK also for 
Mac OS X, so why the variation in x2goclient.exe?

IMO, using the sessions file by default simplifies handling across 
client operating systems (especially as there is no import/export option 
between the "sessions" file on Windows and the registry). That's why 
saving to the registry should be dropped if nobody uses it, or made 
optional ("--save-to-registry" or somehing like that) if there are a few 
users that need it.

So, to the Windows client users out there: Can anyone of you think of a 
reason that speaks against saving the settings in a file?

Until we have a decision on that, my workaround is a link with the 
following destination:
X:\x2goclient.exe --portable --home=%USERPROFILE%
(where X: is a read-only network drive, and %USERPROFILE% is a reserved 
variable on Windows that contains the path to the user's home directory)
BTW, Alex will soon implement a change so that the sessions file can be 
stored on the read-only network drive as well.

-Stefan