What about merging all the preference dialogs into one, with tabs?
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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.
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