Hi Frank,
Do you plan to unify handling of measurement units as part of this work?
If so, i'd be offering my help to get that done throughout the UI
(gtk).
Thanks,
- Rob
Am Sonntag, den 09.01.2005, 00:29 +0000 schrieb Francis James Franklin:
> Hi,
>
> There are several parts to this.
>
> First is the implementation of the dialog. The code was such a mess and
> so confusing that when I wanted to update the Cocoa preferences I
> decided to start pretty much from scratch. My feeling is that the
> preferences dialogs (and I am not just talking Cocoa here) have never
> really been implemented properly and developers have preferred taking
> short cuts via the preferences file rather than attacking the real
> issue. How often have we had o give users the advice 'Set
> suchandsuch="whatever" in the _custom_ section of AbiWord.profile'? Far
> too often.
>
> The nature of preference schemes: we clearly have some support for
> them, but how well do they work? Does anyone use them? Do we still want
> them?
>
> Is there a way to revert to application defaults without having to
> delete AbiWord.profile? For that matter, what *are* the defaults? We
> developers know the answer, but do the users? Should they?
>
> And on all platforms there are preferences that can't be set through
> the dialog, and others that have buttons but don't really exist (yet or
> any longer). Of course, preferences will naturally change with time,
> but we should try to make at easy as possible to keep the preferences
> dialog up to date.
>
> Something that I want to enable is to allow plugins and exporters to
> add sections to the preferences dialog (or its helper classes). The
> HTML export options dialog seemed like a good idea at the time but most
> of the time it's a nuisance and these options (and, generally speaking,
> any simple options) could be added relatively easily to a dynamically
> generated section of the preferences dialog.
>
> Finally, the Abiword.profile file format really needs to be more
> flexible. Having all the values as attributes verges on the insane and
> I would like to develop a better format (still XML, of course).
>
> Regards, Frank
>
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