On Mon, 24 Aug 2015 09:30:19 -0500 Kent Tenney <kten...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm very late to the appearance party. > > The edit settings menu is great, it exposes the workings > in a way that simplifies while educating. By following the > links and reading the text I quickly learn how Leo does it. > > I loaded the Colors node into myLeoSettings.leo and changed > the value of > @color body-bg = white > to > @color body-bg = yellow > > I saved, revert to saved, no change, closed and re-opened, no change, > it seems colors are being configured elsewhere ... One thing I intended but forgot to mention is that Edit settings is really only "guaranteed" to work with a fairly vanilla Leo setup, particularly if you're using any theme or older stylesheet that doesn't get parameterized by the settings in leo/config/leoSettings.leo#@settings-->Appearance (change these first)-->Qt Gui settings or their local overrides, then it won't have a lot of effect. So more work is needed to make sure that that distributed themes are parameterized by those settings, we need to not have the default theme use "body-bg" and another theme use "body-background" for example. Themes can use whatever settings and style code they want, but they should use the same parameters where-ever possible. It would be possible to add theme specific entries to the new menu, but lets get themes working better in general first. Also the new menu only provides management of the settings in leo/config/leoSettings.leo#@settings-->Appearance (change these first)-->Qt Gui settings I didn't do any checking to see that they're all used in the default stylesheet that's parameterized with them. I typically just tested font size and family, which seemed to work fine as long as you re-opened an outline. Cheers -Terry > I did > <alt-x> print-settings > ... > [M] bodybg = yellow > ... > > odd, in the settings pane, among the expected listings are a bunch > like <t tx="tbrown.201508217150.66">status-border-style</t> > > > On Sun, Aug 23, 2015 at 11:50 AM, 'Terry Brown' via leo-editor > <leo-editor@googlegroups.com> wrote: > > There's now an "Edit settings" menu under the main Settings menu. > > > > It's not going to make everyone (anyone?) happy, you still have to > > edit the content of a Leo headline to change font size etc. The new > > functionality is that it finds the appropriate setting and copies > > it to the appropriate outline for you, so knowing what to look for > > and how to manage it is handled. > > > > Sometimes you'll see this: > > > > The relevant setting, '@bookmarks_base_color', is using the > > value of a more general setting, '@text-foreground'. Would you > > like to edit the more specific setting, '@bookmarks_base_color', or > > the more general setting, '@text-foreground'? The more general > > setting may alter appearance / behavior in more places, which may > > or may not be what you prefer. > > > > Edit specific Edit general Cancel > > > > Wordy, but I think easy enough to follow. I guess everything after > > the last comma could be deleted :-) > > > > If the setting is in leoSettings.leo, you see: > > > > The setting '@body-font-family' is in the Leo global > > configuration file 'leoSettings.leo' and should probably be copied > > to 'myLeoSettings.leo' before editing. > > It may make more sense to copy a group or category of settings. > > > > Please enter 1, 2, 3, or 4: > > 1. copy the one setting, '@body-font-family' > > 2. copy the setting group, 'Body font' (Recommended) > > 3. copy the setting whole category, 'Fonts' > > 4. edit the setting in 'leoSettings.leo' anyway > > > > Again, wordy, but I think easy enough to understand. > > > > (Having to enter a number to pick an option is clunky, a > > gui-independent 'pick item from list widget' can be added to Leo, I > > just didn't want to mix that task into the current task.) > > > > Note "Reload settings" isn't working as effectively as I think it > > should, that may need to be addressed as well. Unrelated to the new > > code. > > > > So, this isn't a silver bullet for the newbie setting editing woes, > > but it does eliminate a lot of the Leo specific knowledge required > > (apart from "edit a headline"). Also this new approach can be > > developed further based on feedback, just wanted to get what I had > > so far into the main branch for testing etc. > > > > Cheers -Terry > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop > > receiving emails from it, send an email to > > leo-editor+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, > > send email to leo-editor@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at > > http://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor. For more options, visit > > https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. 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