> Dave Peticolas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I would like to change the way the options dialog works in gnome.
> > Specifically, it should:
> >
> > 1. Allow the user to change the options in the 'upper' part
> > of the dialog, without setting them, but perhaps validating
> > them using a scheme callback.
> >
> > 2. Keep a list of the 'changed' items and, when the user
> > clicks 'ok' or 'apply', tell scheme to change them.
> > I think the ui should only tell scheme to change items
> > that the ui has validated. This allows the ui to control
> > when 'error' messages are shown.
>
> This sounds good, with the caveat that perhaps the scheme code should
> be in control of *how* the error messages are displayed (at least
> generating their contents). This could be done from the scheme
> validation callback perhaps.
Yes, I agree. I just sent a patch which does just that - the
scheme validator supplies the error message on fail.
> Note that in case it's not clear from the current GnuCash code, the
> eventual goal is that whenever a preference is different from our
> system default, and has been modified by the user, a command to
> restore its current value should be saved in the user's
> ~/.gnucash/config.auto file, with documentation, either on shutdown or
> maybe whenever "apply/OK" is clicked.
>
> So we'll eventually need a function that traverses the tree of config
> options, looks for the ones that need their state saved, and then
> spits out the right code to re-set them on restart. Something like
> this:
I didn't implement this functionality, as my scheme skills are not
up to that task :)
dave
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