[ghemical-devel] Preferences

[Geoffrey Hutchison]

On Apr 3, 2006, at 5:16 PM, Donald Ephraim Curtis wrote:

> SUGGESTION:  I think that Ghemical needs a configuration dialog.   
> That is, i think that it needs options that get stored in  
> $HOME/.ghemicalrc and THAT way we don't need to recompile to enable  
> all that stuff.  I'll see if i can find time, at this point the  
> brute force configuration flags work ok, but its time to start  
> showing a bit of concern that there are no user options.

Version 1 actually had a set of preferences for setting rendering  
options, colors, etc. Since Ghemical-1.0x used GNOME code, the prefs  
code used gnome-config. It was pretty slow because it didn't cache  
the settings in memory, so it loaded colors, etc. off disk every time  
it needed them.

I'd like to see this resurrected at some point -- as Donald  
mentioned, there are a variety of options (e.g., Å vs nm in the  
viewer) that could easily be changed by the user *after* compile time.

Just my $0.02. Maybe something for 2.1 or 3.0 or whatever.

Cheers,
-Geoff