What about merging all the preference dialogs into one, with tabs? -- www.paulwrankin.com
On Thu, 20 Jul 2017, at 12:13 AM, Dan Wilcox wrote: > In debugging some preferences GUI behavior, I'm wondering about the need for > the "Save all preferences" menu option. I say that because, so far, both the > path and startup dialogs already send "pd save-preferences" when the ok > button is pressed. Also, the audio dialog has the "Save All Settings" button > and we really only need to add similar functionality to the midi dialog. > > I propose the following: > * path & startup dialogs save preferences with ok button (current behavior) > * audio & midi dialogs save preferences with ok button (add this) > * remove "Save all preferences" button in audio dialog > * remove "Save all preferences" menu option as I think this is > counterintuitive... > > Conceptually I see things like this: > * there is a current preference state at all times > * the state is loaded from the default location at start > * this state can be updated when making changes in the dialogs and hitting > the ok button > * I can save and load the state to and from external files > * I can clear the state > > The "Save all preferences" menu option implies there are separate states > between the GUI and pd core. As far as I can tell, there currently aren't. > > -------- > Dan Wilcox > @danomatika <http://twitter.com/danomatika> > danomatika.com <http://danomatika.com/> > robotcowboy.com <http://robotcowboy.com/> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Pd-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-dev _______________________________________________ Pd-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-dev
