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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