[squeak-dev] Preference settings for 5.3 release

karl ramberg karlramberg at gmail.com
Wed Dec 25 10:56:30 UTC 2019


It could nice if we could use Monticello for saving and loading personal
preferences also :-)

Best,
Karl

On Wed, 25 Dec 2019 at 00:29, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:

> There's an extra complication I notice after trying out my submission for
> saving/loading preferences - if you click on the 'default' button in the
> PreferencesBrowser you get a strange set of options derived from
> Preferences class>>#chooseInitialSettings (including a very different set
> of halo icons)
> This uses the default values set in each preference see Preferences
> class>>#alternateHandlesLook for one example.  In at least a few cases
> these don't agree with the values set in ReleaseBuilder
> class>>#setPreferences.
>
> So we have a default setup created when building the release, a default
> set made from the code versions and some set via pragmas. And some via
> themes - which can get set via the dock Extras->Themes & Colors menu, or
> differently via the world->appearance->choose set of preferences and
> probably other ways.
>
>  I think maybe we should try to simplify this for the next release...
>
> tim
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