Re: Preference Window

[Hilaire Fernandes <hilaire@seul.org>]

George writes:
 > > I plan to have these upper tabs :
 > > - General                will include preferences that affect  all dr. G
 > > 
 > > - Figure                   Preferences affecting only in Figure
 > > - Canvas                 Preferences affecting only in Canvas
 > > - Calculator            Preferences affecting only in Calculator
 > > - GEL                     Preferences affecting only in GEL
 > > - Printing                ( Maybe latter )
 > 
 > Hmmm ... Some of the GEL settings will not be global, so then what is set in
 > this dialog would provide the "default".  We also want a preference dialog
 > for each specific window, then there should be some way to add a standard
 > page for GEL settings.  So for examples while you might use the default
 > precision everywhere, say when plotting you want to use double precision for
 > faster results and you want all string output in scientific notation.  But
 > you don't want to change it in the global dialog all the time.

I was thinking on a radio button 'Default' so if set this goes for all
view (of the same nature, canvas, genius, figure, etc.), if not set we
can select from a GtkClist the views to apply the setting.

Other ideas?

Hilaire