Treat --debugger command line as a temporary setting #11768
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Before, Settings::SetDebugModeEnabled was used; this calls SetBaseOrCurrent() which will usually permanently change the base configuration setting for the debugger to true. Thus, the debugger would remain active even if the --debugger command line option was removed. Now, it remains active only for the current run, like other command-line options. Note that SetBaseOrCurrent is also used by the "Show Debugging UI" option under Options -> Interface; this means that if the debugger is turned off (or off and then back on) by the user while --debugger is specified, this will be reset to whatever the base configuration had when Dolphin is closed and reopened. This behavior is consistent with the rest of the UI. To my understanding, the --debugger option is something from 5.0 stable/DolphinWx where there was no way to toggle the debug UI in the settings (and the command-line option was the only way of enabling it). It's less useful nowadays.
Before, any call of Settings::SetDebugModeEnabled(true) would show it. This means that if the debugging UI is enabled, but the user manually closed the code widget, then toggling any option on the interface pane (such as "Pause on Focus Loss") would cause the code widget to reappear. Additionally, closing and reopening dolphin did not call SetDebugModeEnabled, so the code widget did not reappear in that case (it only appeared after touching the interface pane). This is a bit silly, so now only enabling the debugger does it. This also somewhat resolves an inconsistency introduced by the previous commit: prior to it, --debugger would call SetDebugModeEnabled(true) and thus show the code pane; after these commits, it does not, as it acts like a config change. This is a behavior difference, but not a particularly important one.
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Before, Settings::SetDebugModeEnabled was used; this calls SetBaseOrCurrent() which will usually permanently change the base configuration setting for the debugger to true. Thus, the debugger would remain active even if the --debugger command line option was removed. Now, it remains active only for the current run, like other command-line options.
Note that SetBaseOrCurrent is also used by the "Show Debugging UI" option under Options -> Interface; this means that if the debugger is turned off (or off and then back on) by the user while --debugger is specified, this will be reset to whatever the base configuration had when Dolphin is closed and reopened. This behavior is consistent with the rest of the UI.
To my understanding, the --debugger option is something from 5.0 stable/DolphinWx where there was no way to toggle the debug UI in the settings (and the command-line option was the only way of enabling it). It's less useful nowadays.
Requested by @Lobsterzelda.