[PD] (wip) Preferences file.

[Jonathan Wilkes]

>> Why do you want to add font metrics to the preferences?  That is information that the GUI toolkit should produce automatically.




> Look here:
https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/wiki/Crossplatform-font-metrics-&-comparisons

> Here it is shown the diff between Vanilla & extended:http://lucarda.com.ar/x/Van-Ext-diff.jpg
> There are chances that you may prefer one of these 2 settings, depending on your amount of patches done on Vanilla or Extended.
I get that.  But you are taking an internal format passed between the GUI and the core and exposing it to 
become a public API.  And that format virtually guarantees that users will misunderstand how it works:
"I told Pd to make the 12pt font 7x15 pixels, but it is isn't 7x15.  Is this a bug?"
-Jonathan

> Of course this could be set outside of the preferences on a separate file.
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From: Jonathan Wilkes <jancsika at yahoo.com>
Sent: Monday, February 20, 2017 2:55 PM
To: Lucas Cordiviola; pd-list at lists.iem.at
Subject: Re: [PD] (wip) Preferences file. > Ok, Thanx for the detalis.


> Anyway before concluding this thread I must said that this year I've been connecting the pref.file to 2 things:
> Purr-Data : https://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-list/2017-01/117407.html> Deken : If necessary the pref.file can hold the deken path.for.externals.
> And most importantly I connected the pref.file cuz Miller announced it this year for Win & Mac.
> Do you think there's need to add a couple of things to the actual prefs?
> Font metrics?
Why do you want to add font metrics to the preferences?  That is information
that the GUI toolkit should produce automatically.

-Jonathan

> Deken path?
Salutti,Lucarda.

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