[IPython-dev] User configuration in recent IPython

[Gael Varoquaux]

On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 11:15:28AM -0700, Brian Granger wrote:
> You can use the %install_default_config magic to install the default
> config files.

Right, but why not do this by default: the user has to find out all this
and I bet only a fraction of users will put the effort.

With the old system only a tiny fraction of users actually edited the
default configuration file to change the colors, eventhough they were
getting unreadable colors on white backgrounds. So adding one step is
just going to loose more users.

My 2 cents,

Gaël