On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 12:25:46 +0100 Nick Treleaven nick.treleaven@btinternet.com wrote:
On Tue, 19 Oct 2010 21:00:40 +0300 Dimitar Zhekov dimitar.zhekov@gmail.com wrote:
Yes... Some settings will probabbly work automatically, for example editor ones, and others may be easily reloadable, but I too don't want deep changes just to make _all_ prefs "appliable".
You're right, perhaps we could separate hidden prefs that need restarting and those that don't.
On Thu, 21 Oct 2010 09:56:27 +1100 Lex Trotman elextr@gmail.com wrote:
Have two sections of the editor (or separate into two tabs), one for prefs that don't need restart and one for those that do with appropriate warning. Of course that needs to have that attribute associated with the preference some how.
On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 12:25:46 +0100 Nick Treleaven nick.treleaven@btinternet.com wrote:
I wasn't thinking about visually separating the prefs. Perhaps this could be done by having 2 different treeview parent items, rather than having to switch tabs (as Lex suggests). That way the user can see all hidden prefs on screen at once.
I think a "You need to restart Geany for this setting to take effect" in the editing/infomration area below the list will suffice. Using the x11 SM reverse option parsing, even a "Restart Now" button can be written. :) But all that's secondary.
There isn't much entusiasm about $subject, but at least nobody is against the idea. So I'll give it a try this weekend.