gEDA-dev: Filechooser and component selector code

[Peter Clifton]

On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 17:01 -0500, John Griessen wrote:
> 
> Peter Clifton wrote:
> > [snip]
> > 
> 
> >> I think we need to clean all this mess and store the app preferences in
> >> some way which is neutral for libgeda. Maybe a gobject, or something...
> > 
> > I agree, but it will be quite a big refactor. 
> 
> For a tool for design, it is always helpful to make look and feel choices user 
> changeable.  Could they be stored in a file?

What aspects of look and feel do you refer to?

gschem is written in C, with straight "C" GTK calls, so it is not like a
glade UI where you can move widgets about by altering the glade XML
file.

OTOH: GTK does have a lot of customisability through the use of a gtkrc
file, however I'm not sure what you mean by look and feel. Fonts etc,
button sizes (defined by gtk, but user customisable via gtkrc I think).

If it is keyboard bindings etc.., then that is already somewhat
customisable in system-gschemrc. I was thinking that the toobar layout
might be customisable, but I just remembered it is hardcoded.

Peter