[PD-dev] preferences GUI behavior proposal

[Paul Rankin]

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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