<p>My last 2c on defaults: another way to decide the change is to "observe" what major distros (I am thinking of Debian, Ubuntu, Arch) do: if distros with most users are applying patches to change a default option value, then at some point (it might take one or more years) one can safely decide to incorporate the change based on the assumptions that most users have either already turned off the default or are fine with it.</p>

<p style="font-size:small;-webkit-text-size-adjust:none;color:#666;">—<br />You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread.<br />Reply to this email directly, <a href="https://github.com/geany/geany/pull/1246#issuecomment-292709788">view it on GitHub</a>, or <a href="https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/ABDrJ70Lptqv6Q6-0OVN3zOkA-0kpnYaks5rt2QjgaJpZM4KGa-x">mute the thread</a>.<img alt="" height="1" src="https://github.com/notifications/beacon/ABDrJ0Xn9gf5bJDUQYUs2rJVG6b4MMT2ks5rt2QjgaJpZM4KGa-x.gif" width="1" /></p>
<div itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/EmailMessage">
<div itemprop="action" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ViewAction">
  <link itemprop="url" href="https://github.com/geany/geany/pull/1246#issuecomment-292709788"></link>
  <meta itemprop="name" content="View Pull Request"></meta>
</div>
<meta itemprop="description" content="View this Pull Request on GitHub"></meta>
</div>

<script type="application/json" data-scope="inboxmarkup">{"api_version":"1.0","publisher":{"api_key":"05dde50f1d1a384dd78767c55493e4bb","name":"GitHub"},"entity":{"external_key":"github/geany/geany","title":"geany/geany","subtitle":"GitHub repository","main_image_url":"https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/143418/17495839/a5054eac-5d88-11e6-95fc-7290892c7bb5.png","avatar_image_url":"https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/143418/15842166/7c72db34-2c0b-11e6-9aed-b52498112777.png","action":{"name":"Open in GitHub","url":"https://github.com/geany/geany"}},"updates":{"snippets":[{"icon":"PERSON","message":"@gdm85 in #1246: My last 2c on defaults: another way to decide the change is to \"observe\" what major distros (I am thinking of Debian, Ubuntu, Arch) do: if distros with most users are applying patches to change a default option value, then at some point (it might take one or more years) one can safely decide to incorporate the change based on the assumptions that most users have either already turned off the default or are fine with it."}],"action":{"name":"View Pull Request","url":"https://github.com/geany/geany/pull/1246#issuecomment-292709788"}}}</script>