Inheritance

Is there a way to make sub-galleries inherit the settings for their parent galleries? In my case, I'm generally okay with downloading individual assets but don't want to allow downloading full galleries. I've been caught by assuming that making that setting in the parent gallery is passed to the sub-galleries. Ideally it would be nice to just adjust the default settings for all galleries to my customized settings rather than needing to apply them every time I create a new gallery.