Re: Help! Messing with UI settings.

2014-09-11 Thread Edward K. Ream
On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 9:21 PM, 'Terry Brown' via leo-editor wrote: >> Yup. It is, in fact, necessary to know Qt stylesheets to change >> background colors ;-) > > I think we can shoot for the best of both worlds here, the template > system can provide a tree of simple Leo settings for all the

Re: Help! Messing with UI settings.

2014-09-10 Thread 'Terry Brown' via leo-editor
On Wed, 10 Sep 2014 17:27:28 -0500 "Edward K. Ream" wrote: > On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 11:48 AM, Fidel N > wrote: > > > I also asked for a settings GUI, because IMO, this is screening out [snip] > 3. The most important point you raise here is about the necessity of > learning Qt stylesheets in

Re: Help! Messing with UI settings.

2014-09-10 Thread Edward K. Ream
On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 11:48 AM, Fidel N wrote: > I also asked for a settings GUI, because IMO, this is screening out a lot of > people that would otherwise use Leo for non-programming related stuff. Leo once had a settings gui. I ripped it out because it was a mistake. We aren't going there

Re: Help! Messing with UI settings.

2014-08-14 Thread 'Terry Brown' via leo-editor
On Thu, 14 Aug 2014 15:14:46 -0500 "Edward K. Ream" wrote: > On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 3:00 PM, 'Terry Brown' via leo-editor > wrote: > > > >> > So, we need a git commit hook to update version.py on every > >> > commit. > > > I have a draft hook written, will share soon. Ok, so this is way mor

Re: Help! Messing with UI settings.

2014-08-14 Thread Edward K. Ream
On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 3:00 PM, 'Terry Brown' via leo-editor wrote: >> > So, we need a git commit hook to update version.py on every commit. > I have a draft hook written, will share soon. Excellent. Thanks you. I'm investigating what happens without any settings file, except for the file b

Re: Help! Messing with UI settings.

2014-08-14 Thread 'Terry Brown' via leo-editor
On Thu, 14 Aug 2014 14:51:53 -0500 "Edward K. Ream" wrote: > On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 10:58 AM, 'Terry Brown' via leo-editor > wrote: > > > > It's not ok to require that people use `git` to get it, that's > > unreasonable. > > I agree. It's not a requirement--it's just the easiest, quickest >

Re: Help! Messing with UI settings.

2014-08-14 Thread Edward K. Ream
On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 10:58 AM, 'Terry Brown' via leo-editor wrote: > It's not ok to require that people use `git` to get it, that's > unreasonable. I agree. It's not a requirement--it's just the easiest, quickest way :-) > So, we need a git commit hook to update version.py on every commit.

Re: Help! Messing with UI settings.

2014-08-14 Thread 'Terry Brown' via leo-editor
On Thu, 14 Aug 2014 10:16:32 -0700 (PDT) Dufriz wrote: > On Thursday, 14 August 2014 17:49:08 UTC+1, Fidel N wrote: > > > > I knew very few of programming, nothing of python, and now I know > > both, because I had the time, loved the concept of Leo, and could > > devote my time to study both. > >

Re: Help! Messing with UI settings.

2014-08-14 Thread Dufriz
On Thursday, 14 August 2014 17:49:08 UTC+1, Fidel N wrote: > > I knew very few of programming, nothing of python, and now I know both, > because I had the time, loved the concept of Leo, and could devote my time > to study both. > I intend to take the same path as you. I just wish I have the tim

Re: Help! Messing with UI settings.

2014-08-14 Thread Dufriz
Terry said: >(Summary - quite possibly Dufriz is using the latest code, can't tell >from the log pane content) Precisely. The version I am running was downloaded from git itself yesterday or the day before. The About window (whose data I had copied into the post) does not report updated info

Re: Help! Messing with UI settings.

2014-08-14 Thread Fidel N
Dufriz is facing the same exact problems with GUI config I had when I joined Leo. I knew very few of programming, nothing of python, and now I know both, because I had the time, loved the concept of Leo, and could devote my time to study both. I also asked for a settings GUI, because IMO, this is

Re: Help! Messing with UI settings.

2014-08-14 Thread 'Terry Brown' via leo-editor
On Thu, 14 Aug 2014 09:26:30 -0700 (PDT) Chris George wrote: > "It's not ok to require that people use `git` to get it, > that's unreasonable." > > Why? > > The primary target user for Leo is a programmer, is it not? No, although I can understand why someone might think that was the case :-)

Re: Help! Messing with UI settings.

2014-08-14 Thread Chris George
"It's not ok to require that people use `git` to get it, that's unreasonable." Why? The primary target user for Leo is a programmer, is it not? Perhaps once the development solidifies enough and begins targeting non-programmers (average user), then it might need a little dumbing down of the d

Re: Help! Messing with UI settings.

2014-08-14 Thread 'Terry Brown' via leo-editor
On Thu, 14 Aug 2014 10:40:23 -0500 "Edward K. Ream" wrote: > On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 9:02 AM, Dufriz wrote: > > I am on Windows 8.1, running Python 3.3.5 with > > PyQt4-4.10.4-gpl-Py3.3-Qt4.8.5-x64. > > I am using Leo 4.11 final, build 6240. > > Thanks for this. This looks like ancient history

Re: Help! Messing with UI settings.

2014-08-14 Thread Edward K. Ream
On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 9:02 AM, Dufriz wrote: > I am on Windows 8.1, running Python 3.3.5 with > PyQt4-4.10.4-gpl-Py3.3-Qt4.8.5-x64. > I am using Leo 4.11 final, build 6240. Thanks for this. This looks like ancient history, though I might be mistaken. Recent builds (from git) look like: Leo 4.

Re: Help! Messing with UI settings.

2014-08-14 Thread 'Terry Brown' via leo-editor
On Thu, 14 Aug 2014 07:15:58 -0700 (PDT) Dufriz wrote: > BTW, the dark theme which I am trying to modify is the *last* node of > the myLeoSetting outline. So in addition to what I just said, it's important that (a) the dark theme subtree be a descendant of the @settings node in myLeoSettings, no

Re: Help! Messing with UI settings.

2014-08-14 Thread 'Terry Brown' via leo-editor
On Thu, 14 Aug 2014 07:02:52 -0700 (PDT) Dufriz wrote: > I am on Windows 8.1, running Python 3.3.5 with > PyQt4-4.10.4-gpl-Py3.3-Qt4.8.5-x64. > I am using Leo 4.11 final, build 6240. > > I have partially obtained the color combination I was looking for, > simply by importing Terry's solarized t

Re: Help! Messing with UI settings.

2014-08-14 Thread Dufriz
BTW, the dark theme which I am trying to modify is the *last* node of the myLeoSetting outline. -- 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+unsubsc

Re: Help! Messing with UI settings.

2014-08-14 Thread Dufriz
I am on Windows 8.1, running Python 3.3.5 with PyQt4-4.10.4-gpl-Py3.3-Qt4.8.5-x64. I am using Leo 4.11 final, build 6240. I have partially obtained the color combination I was looking for, simply by importing Terry's solarized theme which takes care of most things. However, this is not to say t

Re: Help! Messing with UI settings.

2014-08-14 Thread Edward K. Ream
On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 12:45 PM, Dufriz wrote: > Leo's convoluted settings system is really trying my patience. I'm sorry you are having problems. I can relate :-) First, what version of Leo are you using, and what platform are you on? Edward -- You received this message because you are sub