A configuration at the user interface level is a set of settings grouped inside the database under a common name. The settings are related to the display and user preferences in general.
The contents of a configuration are written both by the command and the preferences dialog.
When manitou is launched without the --config parameter specifying what configuration to use, it chooses its configuration name by
combining the hostname and the operating system name of the machine it runs on
(for example: myhost-linux).
In order to use the same configuration on different
workstations, or for several users to share the same workstation but with
different configurations , the --config option has to be used.
Under MS-Windows, the operating system name is windows, no matter
the version and flavour.
The configuration's name can only be chosen at application launch. To operate under a different configuration, the user must restart the program. Note that it does not affect user identities (the From fields of messages being composed): any identity can be selected when composing a message, independantly of the current configuration.