On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 07:18:25PM -0500, Doug Quale wrote: > > You'd also need to specify a way to discover, store (and restore on > > startup/widget construction) these preferences per-user and per-widget > > -- or is that up to the application programmer? > > I was imagining a simple system that required the application > programmer to save the preferences and load them into the appropriate > widgets by hand. This would be very tedious, but smarter mechanisms > could be built on top of those low level facilities. Maybe this is > aiming too low. > > A more integrated facility such as what bonobo docks and toolbars > provide (automatically remembers and restores toolbar configuration at > application shutdown and startup) would be even better.
I'd shoot for something transparent, that you simply threw a switch in the application and ~user/.appname/state was generated and kept up to date automatically for you. That'd be a killer feature for app-writers. Take care, -- Christian Robottom Reis | http://async.com.br/~kiko/ | [+55 16] 3361 2331 _______________________________________________ pygtk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.daa.com.au/mailman/listinfo/pygtk Read the PyGTK FAQ: http://www.async.com.br/faq/pygtk/
