Sven Barth <pascaldra...@googlemail.com> hat am 10. März 2011 um 10:52
geschrieben:
> Am 09.03.2011 22:31, schrieb Juha Manninen:
> > One idea: "Options" could be moved to Tools->Options or Edit->Preferences.
> > The
> > other settings could go there, too. Scan FPC directory would go to Tools.
> > Enviroment menu would go away.
>
> If you move the "Options", then I'd vote for "Tools->Options", because
> that sounds more reasonable to look for configuration than the "Edit"
> menu... (just my opinion)
>
> > On the other hand some packages can register their settings into a menu. It
> > makes sense to have one dedicated menu for settings.
>
> Maybe the packages should be modified to register their settings in the
> "Options" dialog then (the JCF does that afaik).
Only very few packages use this yet (afaik jcf and educationlaz), because the
interface for this ability is new and not very stable yet. It was introduced in
0.9.28 and changed in 0.9.30. I am not sure it is stable yet.
> To prevent something like this maybe a "best practices" guide for IDE
> packages should be made (or is there already one?), which could contain
> something like "register settings in the Options dialog instead of
> creating a custom menu item"
AFAIK it is not documented yet.
Mattias
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