[TextMate] Preferences window (was ProFont)

[Jan Sabbe]

Op 7-okt-04 om 00:04 heeft Sune Foldager het volgende geschreven:

> On 6/10-2004, at 23:55, Carl-Johan Kihlbom wrote:
>>
>> I don't understand your argument about the Preferences. TextMate 
>> still has a lot of preferences, such as font, antialiasing, tab 
>> width, etc., but instead of keeping them all together in one place 
>> where they're easy to find they are spread out and hidden among the 
>> other menus. How is that easy and straight forward?
>
> I don't agree that they are spread out and hidden... well, they are 
> spread out but they arein the menus where they logically belong. For 
> example, font setting is in the view menu, stuff that determines how 
> the editor reacts to your input is in the behaviour menu, and stuff 
> relating to syntax is also in the view menu etc. Putting it all in a 
> prefs window is not much better: It takes longer time to change, and 
> many people will check the menus first to see if it is not considered 
> "deep" enough to end up in the prefs, I think.
>

Well, I can't speak for other people, but one of the first things I 
wanted to do when I started TextMate, was change fore and background 
color of a normal text window (to white on black).
The first thing I did was go to the Applications menu, to check if 
there was a Preferences dialog.. Now, it wasn't hard to find it in the 
View menu I wondered two things when doing this, would it change color 
for just one window, or for all windows in the applications. I also 
wondered if it would save state. It wasn't really a big problem, but in 
my personal case, a Preferences window would have been more 
natural/obvious. It didn't really annoy me, but it would just be 
smoother.

It's good that you try to minimize the number of preferences, but I 
would add a Preferences window, and put in any option that works on the 
entire application and that saves state accross application startups. 
(font, color,..). I mean, it's not because that you don't call it a 
preference, that it isn't one. Maybe keep the options in the other menu 
bars, but make it only work on the current window.