On Tue, 19 Oct 2010 17:46:23 +0100 Nick Treleaven nick.treleaven@btinternet.com wrote:
On Tue, 19 Oct 2010 19:01:10 +0300 Dimitar Zhekov dimitar.zhekov@gmail.com wrote:
What do you think about creating a firefox-about:config-like interface for the hidden preferences? For example, a "Various" tab in the preferences dialog, with a "name value" list, a check button or a text entry (depending on the currenttly selected element), and a link to www.geany.org/manual/current/#hidden-preferences.
That'll take some time to write, for example to check that all changes are applied immediately, but I'm willing to do it, if you think it's a good idea. The stash provides a good base for such an interface.
It would be nice for the user. However, it would mean all hidden prefs would need to be made reloadable. I don't want to do that really.
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".
The feature could still be implemented, but require that the user restart after editing a setting. An info area could be shown reminding the user to restart.
Quite reasonable, IMHO.
Perhaps the feature should be implemented as a plugin, but could be shipped with Geany.
A plugin implies that the hidden prefs will both be visually editable and retain their "hidden" status... Having it both ways seems confusing to me, not simpler.
Such a plugin will either have to include it's own list all hidden prefs, synced with Geany, or rely on specially exported functions, useful only for this particular plugin. A tab in the Preferences dialog, OTOH, is much more straightforward to implement.