[PD-dev] preferences GUI behavior proposal

[Dan Wilcox]

I'm realizing now that this proposal will not quite work yet as the state loaded from a file with the Load From... menu option is not automatically saved, so the Save All Preferences menu entry will still be needed. This is something we can iron out later on.

> On Jul 19, 2017, at 4:13 PM, Dan Wilcox <danomatika at gmail.com> 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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