Yeah, I agree SystemNavigation would seem to be the most appropriate
place.  I'll do that.
  - Chris

On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 3:58 PM, Nicolas Cellier
<nicolas.cellier.aka.nice at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2010/3/3 Chris Muller <asqueaker at gmail.com>:
>> Hi, yes, I did!  And, in fact, I have already used the new preference
>> Pragma's in restoring the Auto Indent preference.
>>
>> Now, the rationale I had heard from Andreas was that *localized*
>> preferences, such as Auto Indent or things related to TextEditor, or
>> such as the one example you mentioned
>> (TextDiffBuilder>>ignoreLineEndings), could be made as Class-vars
>> there.
>>
>> But, in this case, the #traceMessages is a truly global setting.  I
>> would be happy to make it a pragma, but I just didn't see a good
>> candidate class for this global preference other than "Preferences"
>> class itself which, you as you said, we are trying to avoid bloat.
>>
>> I guess the bloating of Preferences class is independent of whether we
>> use a Pragma or not.  If you have suggestions for both issues, I'd be
>> happy to follow them..
>>
>> Thanks,
>>  Chris
>>
>
> Ah yes I see...
> SystemNavigation ?
>
> Nicolas
>
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 3:38 PM, Nicolas Cellier
>> <nicolas.cellier.aka.nice at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi Chris
>>>
>>> Did you notice new pattern for creating preferences ?
>>> We prefer a method annotation (pragme) because it will prevent
>>> Preferences to be bloated.
>>>
>>> like TextDiffBuilder>>ignoreLineEndings
>>>        "Answer a boolean telling if line endings differences should be
>>> ignored or emphasized"
>>>
>>>        <preference: 'ignoreLineEndings'
>>>                category: 'TextDiff'
>>>                description: 'When enabled, source code differences in line endings
>>> will be ignored.'
>>>                type: #Boolean>
>>>        ^IgnoreLineEndings ifNil: [ false ]
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>>
>>> Nicolas
>>>
>>> 2010/3/3  <commits at source.squeak.org>:
>>>> Chris Muller uploaded a new version of System to project The Trunk:
>>>> http://source.squeak.org/trunk/System-cmm.275.mcz
>>>>
>>>> ==================== Summary ====================
>>>>
>>>> Name: System-cmm.275
>>>> Author: cmm
>>>> Time: 2 March 2010, 9:48:35.173 pm
>>>> UUID: 2f46dbd4-b790-41cc-b8c4-76d1b7eb1b15
>>>> Ancestors: System-cmm.274
>>>>
>>>> Added #traceMessages preference.
>>>>
>>>> =============== Diff against System-cmm.274 ===============
>>>>
>>>> Item was added:
>>>> + ----- Method: Preferences class>>traceMessages (in category 'standard queries') -----
>>>> + traceMessages
>>>> +       ^ self
>>>> +               valueOfFlag: #traceMessages
>>>> +               ifAbsent: [ false ]!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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