Re: Handling preferences

On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 03:14:41PM +0100, Sebastian Geerken wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 15, Jorge Arellano Cid wrote:


> > [...]
> >   AFAICS  an  init(p1, p2, ...) function is very good for setting
> > the  whole  prefs pack at once, but it doesn't seem as convenient
> > for  changing  just  one  of those vars at run time; which may be
> > necessary  for instance if we ever implement a preferences dpi or
> > enable a custom UI (as with change panel size).
> > 
> >   I'm a bit more inclined towards the separate functions for each
> > var approach.
> 
> Yes, probably this is a good idea. However, should these methods be
> static or not? That is, should it be possible that different instances
> of dw::Textblock have different values set?
> 
> One problem is that dw::Textblock is instanciated at a couple of
> postions, and how configuration looks like eventually is not clear
> yet; so I'd like to follow a more pragmatical approach to set the at
> one position in the code.

  I'd  go  for  the simple solution now (a global setting).
  i.e. a CLI parameter sets the whole browser.

  If  the  need  arises in the future we may re-evaluate enabling
the change of a particular textblock var on the fly.


-- 
  Cheers
  Jorge.-