[squeak-dev] Preferences outOfTheBox

Chris Muller asqueaker at gmail.com
Tue Jan 28 20:24:13 UTC 2014


On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 11:50 AM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:
> ... are not used by the release builder? Why?

Probably because no one was aware it existed.

> Browsing changes to defaultValueTableForCurrentRelease would make it easy to see what changed lately. Also, it allows a user to go back to a "safe" set of preferences.

Sure.

> Now prefs are overridden in a private method in release builder. I don't think that's a good idea. outOfTheBox should mean outOfTheBox :)

ReleaseBuilder should simply call outOfTheBox.  But
#defaultValueTableForCurrentRelease is _way_ out of date.  Things we
changed in 4.2 are still pre-4.2 values.  This will be tedious to
correct now -- would you be willing to wait for 4.6?

We still need to knock out that other closing-Morphic-project-window bug..

> Below is something I extracted from an older diff of yours showing only new things. Can you tell us what else is different in this release?

I can't think of any prefs besides the ones below.

> setPreferences
>         Workspace shouldStyle: false.
>         SystemWindow reuseWindows: true.
>         TextEditor
>                  autoEnclose: true ;
>                  autoIndent: false ;
>                  destructiveBackWord: false ;
>                  blinkingCursor: false ;
>                  dumbbellCursor: true.
>         BalloonMorph setBalloonColorTo:
>                 (TranslucentColor
>                         r: 0.92
>                         g: 0.92
>                         b: 0.706
>                         alpha: 0.75).
>         Preferences
>                  insertionPointColor: Color red ;
>                  enable: #traceMessages ;
>                  enable: #thoroughSenders ;
>                  enable: #diffsWithPrettyPrint ;
>                  enable: #alternativeBrowseIt.


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