I'm using the last revision on the svn repository: r2873 and pak128-1.4.5 under Gentoo Linux.
The problem is that somehow the new version when it saves the file settings.xml it does it wrongly or in a strange way. Because as you can see on the first screenshot when you start the game it's with day/night mode activated and as you see on the second screenshot it shows the windows close buttons, etc. on the right as if I had that option enabled on simuconf.tab and it also starts with hidden trees... I attached my settings.xml file. Anyway if i delete it and start the game as usual for the first time it asks for the language and shows everything correctly, but if you close it and then open it again it happens this again... I don't know if i did something wrong and it's normal that this happens or whether it's a bug...
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This version saved all bool as true, regardless of their value ...
It's solved now on r2875. Thanks prissi :)
I tested r2875, but I think still there is a problem.
After bool tags, there is one NUL charactor.