On Nov 4, 2007, at 6:03 AM, Frank Barknecht wrote: > Hallo, > Chris McCormick hat gesagt: // Chris McCormick wrote: > >> Almost all visual improvements are going to be subjective. That is to >> say, for every suggestion someone makes along the lines of visual >> changes to Pd, there will be many people for the change and many >> people >> against. For that reason, please put in the time to make all changes >> configurable, so that those who like the current look of Pd can >> easily >> put in command line flags or .pdrc settings to make it looks the >> way it >> does now. Ideally this would be something like "-originalgui". As for >> the default look, that could be decided by majority vote I guess. > > I very much support that approach. What looks good or is helpful is a > very personal decision. We already had a heated discussion about which > fonts to choose and I'd rather not repeat this for every other aspect > of Pd, this would be counter-productive and bind too many resources > better wasted elsewhere. ;) > > The only way a GUI overhaul can work in the long run IMO is to make a > configuration system. This actually probably should not be a command > line flag like "-originalgui" or "-newgui", but a new configuration > file for themes that can be loaded with "-theme" or so. This is the > approach that works for most other applications as well (Firefox, Gtk, > etc.) All that Pd would need to supply is some hooks for setting > various things like colors for canvas-BG, thickness of > signal/msg-cords, (or even fonts, though this may be tricky) etc. Then > the config file would just list the values for these variables, maybe > in simple Tcl-syntax (no XML!). But please don't enforce huge GUI > choices on all users.
I'll add -vanillagui to set the old colors. Plus I am working on a hack so you'll be able to set those colors from within Pd. Pd is sorely in need of a good preferences API, then this could easily be added to that... any volunteers? :D .hc ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---- News is what people want to keep hidden and everything else is publicity. - Bill Moyers _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
