Image adjustment HUD observation / implications

I've just noticed something interesting.
The defaul image adjustment panel (or HUD) does not
have the edge sharpening adjustment panel invoked -
understood.
However, when I select edge sharpening from the drop
down menu - to add the adjustment sliders to my HUD -
it invokes edge sharpening on the image where none
previously existed, in the amount that the default
sliders are already set at. In otherwords, simply
adding edge sharpening to my HUD, sharpens the image
I presume this is also the case for the other
non-standard adjustments - although I haven't tested
this yet.
Is this by design ? If so, it presumably has
implications for those who have configured their HUD
plist to include the edge sharpening panel as a
default.
Comments ?
Paul
Aperture 1.5.2
When I add the non-default items to the HUD it also turns them on by default at their default settings. That is how Aperture works by design. It assumes that if you are adding these sliders to the HUD then you must want them turned on.
Tricky. if you have set the plist to include them by default since you will have to remember to de-select sharpening every time you send an image to an agency etc...
Personally I'll take that chance. I would love these items to appear on the HUD by default but don't know how to do that. You mention altering the HUD plist...how is that done? what are the settings?
stephen

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