[Cuis-dev] [IMPROV] Preferences Menu With Better Feedback

[Juan Vuletich]

Hi Gerald, Folks,

While I like the enhanced behavior, I think the menu got too large. I'd 
prefer if we could reduce the main Preferences menu like this:

Preferences
------------------
Size of GUI elements...
Set System Font
[] Show taskbar
[] Full Screen
Appareance
UI feel
Changes
Debugging
Programming
Browsing
Shout
Events
Meta
Sound

Then, submenus:

Appareance
------------------
Menus show icons
Menus show section titles
BrightColorTheme
DarkTheme
Extension themes...


UI feel
----------
Focus follows mouse
Click grabs morph
... Selected options from UI...


Changes
--------------
Set code Author...
[] Numbered user changes files
[] Version numbered change set files

Menus... menu should be merged in other menus?

Move "Send mouse wheel events" to Events... submenu.

Do NOT show at all "taskbar height / scale options" in menu, as it is 
already in the taskbar right click menu.

And there are many options in submenus that shouldn't be at all.

My idea is to have:
1) Main options, that are most often needed, or newbies need to find 
easily in the main menu.
2) Important options in submenus like Appareance, UI feel, Changes, 
Debugging
3) Maybe a Programming submenu, that includes further submenus for 
programming / shout / meta
4) Maybe an 'Other preferences' or 'All preferences' automatically 
generated.

This way, the main menu won't be too cluttered, the most imporant 
options will be easy to find, and further detail is available for those 
who want to dig in.

Thanks,

On 9/4/2021 12:55 PM, Gerald Klix via Cuis-dev wrote:
> On 9/1/21 1:55 PM, Hernan Wilkinson wrote:
>> a little bit late, but it looks very nice!
> Your are welcome! And you aren't late:
>
> I now have a final version ready,
> that properly -- according to Gerald :} --categorizes
> all boolean preferences and has a submenu for each of these
> categories. I also added some stuff that Ken missed
> directly to the preference menu.
>
> If you all agree with the current design,
> I will convert it to change-set and submit it
> for integration.
>
>
> Have fun,
>
> Gerald
>
>
>
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 31, 2021 at 5:03 PM Gerald Klix via Cuis-dev <
>> cuis-dev at lists.cuis.st> wrote:
>>
>>> On 8/31/21 6:03 PM, Juan Vuletich wrote:
>>>> On 8/30/2021 9:54 AM, Gerald Klix via Cuis-dev wrote:
>>>>> Hi all, Hi Juan,
>>>>>
>>>>> Please find attached a (rather big) package that reworks
>>>>> the preferences menu. My main objective was to provide
>>>>> better user feedback by showing the currently
>>>>> active setting where feasible.
>>>>>
>>>>> I am looking forward toyour feedback.
>>>>> If the changes are acceptable,
>>>>> I will convert the package to change-set
>>>>> and resubmit it.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> HTH and Best Regards,
>>>>>
>>>>> Gerald
>>>>
>>>> Hi Gerald,
>>>>
>>>> Thanks! I really like it.
>>> You are welcome.
>>>
>>> Tomorrow, while building the VMs, I will clean up the code a bit,
>>> change the font/ui sizes and font selection menus,
>>> and add an extended preferences menu for
>>> code preferences and the like.
>>>
>>>
>>> Best Regards,
>>>
>>> Gerald
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>>
>>
>


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