[ghemical-devel] Preferences

[Tommi Hassinen]

On Mon, 3 Apr 2006, Geoffrey Hutchison wrote:

> 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.

Yes, I remember this. This could be convered by the dialog and .rc file as 
well. But for example changing OpenGL rendering settings is a lot easier 
than changing the way how the GTK widgets of the user interface are 
created ; the current solution is a compile-time solution.

 	Tommi