[PD] gem.conf (was: Re: bug 2621932 appeared in version 0.42)

[IOhannes m zmölnig]

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Peter Plessas wrote:
> 
> Oh, and i just compiled Gem and at loading the lib it posts a message
> about "gem.conf" not being found. What is this file? A config file for
> Gem itself?

exactly.

i haven't found a way to use Pd's file-opening mechanisms without
outputting an error if the file cannot be found.
(but iirc, it only writes to stderr - if not using "-verbose"; so most
people probably won't notice)

it's meant as a replacement for all the weird envvariables that are in
use now.
you can use it set the single-context, default font, default window size
and the like.
the format is very simple (but different from Pd's rcfile/settings).
one key/value pair by line.
e.g.
<snip>
font.face /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-bitstream-vera/Vera.ttf
window.width 800
window.height 600
window.x 1024
window.y 0
window.border 0
</snip>

ideas on which things should be settable with this mechanism are welcome.

mgfasdr
IOhannes
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