Newly installed versions of the engine will now attempt to copy the project-agnostic config settings from a previous engine installation. This happens by way of a versioned manifest that copies old versions when the manifest does not exist, or is a different version. This code path is benign for non-installed versions of the engine (or FPaths::ShouldSaveToUserDir() is false).
EditorGameAgnosticSettings and EditorUserSettings ini paths have been renamed to EditorSettings and EditorPerProjectUserSettings respectively to better convey their purpose. In general, most settings should be saved in EditorSettings (project-agnostic) so that they apply regardless of which project is open. We have some way to go migrating existing settings for this to be the case, however.
Some previously per-project configuration files are now project-agnostic (such as Editor.ini, EditorKeyBindings.ini, and EditorLayout.ini)
GEditor->Access...Settings and GEditor->Get...Settings have been removed in favor of direct access of the CDO through GetMutableDefault<> and GetDefault<> respectively. Global config ini filenames that are not set up are now neither loaded nor saved on build machines, to handle the problem of indeterminate state more generically.
This addresses UETOOL-270 (Most editor preferences should be project-agnostic)
[CL 2517558 by Andrew Rodham in Main branch]
Unshelved from pending changelist '2501794':
[UE-10865] Adding backwards compatibility fo dynamic cast nodes that do not have the boolean result pin yet (they have yet to be regenerated).
[CL 2506010 by Mike Beach in Main branch]
Settings specific to Anim, Blueprint and Material Editor should probably be broken out into their own settings classes in the respective modules at some point. It feels a little strange that the GraphEditor needs to be aware of specific pin and node title types. At this time I did not want to refactor the existing graph editors though, and since many of the properties are currently being shared, pulling these settings out of UEditorUserSettings is at least a good first step. In the future I would like to see settings sections for specific graph based editors instead of having a generic 'Graph Editor' section that is shared by some or all editors.
I exposed various color settings in the UI as many users seem to be quite excited about customizing their Editor. If you think that some settings should be added or removed, please feel free to make any desired changes or let me know. Thanks!
#CodeReview: nick.whiting
[CL 2079703 by Max Preussner in Main branch]
