Re: leoSettings.leo about to change

2011-10-26 Thread Edward K. Ream
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 10:48 PM, ne1uno eltro...@gmail.com wrote: the optparse docs effectively hid from me any hint of extra options or turning off errors on non existent options. so I wasn't able to actually try --style or --stylesheet Leo support neither --style nor --stylesheet at

Re: leoSettings.leo about to change

2011-10-25 Thread Edward K. Ream
On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 9:14 AM, ne1uno eltro...@gmail.com wrote: is there any way extra options could be passed onto QApplication(sys.args)? it's possible if you would be consulting an @data stylesheet node to determine what was active, that would no longer be valid, so I guess you would

Re: leoSettings.leo about to change

2011-10-25 Thread Edward K. Ream
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 9:16 AM, Edward K. Ream edream...@gmail.com wrote: - Supporting --stylesheet would be a simulation in the sense that it would not be passed to the QApplication ctor. This will be a bit tricky, because plugins are supposed to be allowed to create gui's. Thus, we will

Re: leoSettings.leo about to change

2011-10-25 Thread Kent Tenney
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 9:16 AM, Edward K. Ream edream...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 9:14 AM, ne1uno eltro...@gmail.com wrote: is there any way extra options could be passed onto QApplication(sys.args)? it's possible if you would be consulting an @data stylesheet node to

Re: leoSettings.leo about to change

2011-10-25 Thread Edward K. Ream
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 9:32 AM, Kent Tenney kten...@gmail.com wrote: This thread has been over my head Well, parts of it are over my head as well, as Terry surely must have guessed by now :-) However, I just tried Terry's script which cycled colors and realized that if it was easy to

Re: leoSettings.leo about to change

2011-10-25 Thread Kent Tenney
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 10:07 AM, Edward K. Ream edream...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 9:32 AM, Kent Tenney kten...@gmail.com wrote: This thread has been over my head Well, parts of it are over my head as well, as Terry surely must have guessed by now :-) However, I just tried

Re: leoSettings.leo about to change

2011-10-25 Thread Edward K. Ream
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 10:34 AM, Kent Tenney kten...@gmail.com wrote: By dead simple I mean named sheets. @data qt-gui-plugin-style-sheet solarize Interesting idea. Another example of GvR's, think namespaces. You might be interested in this Tim O'Reilly talk, about the importance of

Re: leoSettings.leo about to change

2011-10-25 Thread Edward K. Ream
On Oct 25, 10:49 am, Edward K. Ream edream...@gmail.com wrote: You might be interested in this Tim O'Reilly talk, about the importance of platforms in cognitive evolution. When I hear this kind of bland bullshit, I want to scream. Edward -- You received this message because you are

Re: leoSettings.leo about to change

2011-10-25 Thread ne1uno
forgot to mention, it should be possible as an option to ignore all default Leo theme settings. some users would just as soon like Leo to grab default colors/styles from their window manager theme and adhere as much as possible to those. not to say in any way this would be easier. much the

Re: leoSettings.leo about to change

2011-10-24 Thread ne1uno
Qt lets you set -style= and -stylesheet= from the commandline, but optparse errors on unknown options. on X11 you can set quite a few more options for debug and window controls. is there any way extra options could be passed onto QApplication(sys.args)? maybe with a short informational pseudo

leoSettings.leo about to change

2011-10-23 Thread Edward K. Ream
Now that there is a clear indication of which pane has focus, Leo's pastel backgrounds seem truly dubious, especially for the body pane. I plan to change various colors in leoSettings.leo. If you like the existing colors now would be a good time to copy the following settings to