Configuration Properties Panel


Configuration properties are global settings that apply to all versions of the DSL. The settings are stored in the file .dirinfo.plist in the configuration directory. Settings that were introduced in later versions of the DSL will be ignored by the earlier versions.

Departments have the following properties:

Configuration Description - the name that the user will see in the menu program. The string can contain any printable character.

Configuration Type - how the configuration will be used. This is used to control visibility of configurations in the menu program. The current types are:

Common Configuration - Specifies whether the configuration will use the settings of another configuration of type common as its base settings. See the topic Using a Common Configuration for more details.

Automatically Deleting temporary system Files

You can set the configuration to do some cleanup just before an application is launched. Toggle the Automatically delete temporary system files to on. The system files that are deleted from the appropriate temporary directories have the extensions:

The setting Delete files older then x days specifies how old the file will be before the deletion will occur.