Re: gEDA-dev: some suggestions

[Christian Viller Hansen <cvh-at-NOSPAMviller_dot_org>]

John Griessen wrote:
> I thought the suggestion was to make the GUI change the rc files, but 
> stay with the local dir and user rc files.  The GUI could include a 
> "reset to defaults" button and a "refresh from local rc file" button to 
> save the adventurous from time burning.  I think the auto generated idea 
> must have just been the starting point, like a "reset to defaults" point.

What I mean is the user should not be presented with every possible 
configuration line from the system-gschemrc, but just the most important 
subset.

> A known usable state of the rc files like when first installed.  Then a 
> new user could have a version of the rc file in a text editor, try it, 
> bomb, go back to defaults painlessly, change the  local rc file, refresh 
> that in the GUI, and iterate to learn how to set something up.

It should be impossible to get to a unusable state simply by 
configuring... I know this is not true for lisp style configuration 
files, but I cannot singlehandedly change the whole code to support a 
more traditional configuration style. The gui tool could navigate new 
users away from trouble.

> I suggest not trying to make anyone use a particular text/programmer's 
> editor, just explain how to use it in a another window at the same time 
> as the GUI.

I'm not sure I get your point. A gui for configuration would make it 
possible not to use an editor for configuration.


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