(This article has been machine translated from Korean to English)
The preservation of user settings is a key element in providing a better experience to users across various software environments. Maintaining user custom keymaps should be an important consideration in Dorico.
The significance of user settings, especially customization in software, is considerable. Users can maximize work efficiency and convenience by configuring the software to meet their individual needs and preferences. In complex software like Dorico, user custom keymaps can become a central element of the workflow, allowing users to utilize the software more intuitively and efficiently.
However, today, while updating Dorico (from version 50 to 70), I encountered an issue where user settings were reset. This might have been my own fault for failing to preserve the existing settings properly. Nevertheless, this can clearly cause significant inconvenience to users, and reconfiguring settings can take a considerable amount of time. Especially in professional software like Dorico, losing personalized shortcuts and environmental settings can disrupt workflow and directly impact productivity.
To address such issues, a sustainable system that can preserve user settings is required. By enhancing data backup and restoration features, and implementing ways to save and synchronize settings (sharing settings between desktops and laptops), it is possible to maintain user settings even during updates. By integrating such features, Dorico can provide users with a consistently stable environment.
In conclusion, avoiding the reset of user custom keymaps during Dorico updates is a measure that greatly improves user convenience. The implementation of such a system will increase user satisfaction in the short term and strengthen the software’s reliability in the long term. Such a sustainable solution not only offers significant benefits to Dorico users but also serves as a crucial stepping stone in enhancing the overall user experience of the software.