Preferences discussion

[Douglas]

@Grace

Perhaps the label language is for people to sell patterns over the internet to people from other countries in their language?

Ok… that makes sense… although maybe it seems that should be a PDF / SVG export option?

@Grace

Just don’t take away the Preferences in the menu, please… I change things there quite often to help people on the forum

No it would just be to “force” a first time user to configure certain settings to get them going.

Could also add am option to show an intro video to get started. To be honest, I was a bit baffled until I watched the video on doing the panty pattern… and went Ok, now it makes sense.

@Pneumarian

They both edit the same preferences file.

They are 2 separtate files… stored in AppData/Roaming/Seamly2DTeam/Seamly2D.ini and SeamlyMe.ini.

@Pneumarian

This way when people are using SeamlyMe, & need to change a preference, they don’t get confused by having non-Me preferences to edit.

Agreed… but again there are 2 separate preference files. ???

@Pneumarian

If I’m an English-speaker making a pattern for a Spanish-speaker, I’d want to have a different label language. But unless that’s all I’m doing I think it makes more sense to have label-language be a pattern-specific option.

Another consideration is that we currently have a shorter list of label-languages than interface languages. Which illustrates that it might be nice to be able to develop them at different rates. Though my first consideration would indicate that it would be better to have a longer list of label-languages than of interface languages.

Here’s the reason for the difference from the Qt manual on Locale… based on how the label languages are gathered:

Returns the dash-separated language, script and country (and possibly other BCP47 fields) of this locale as a string.

Unlike the uiLanguages() the returned value of the bcp47Name() represents the locale name of the QLocale data but not the language the user-interface should be in.

This function tries to conform the locale name to BCP47.

The GUI languages are actually the ones that translation files were prepared for,

@Pneumarian

Speaking of splashscreens, at some point we might like a regular loading splashscreen to ask which Seamly program/file we want to load. I believe such was discussed shortly before the schism, but other stuff was, & probably is, rightly higher priority.

Could do that… I have several programs that providing loading like the last five files used For ex:

@Clauettedu02

Si je comprends bien vous souhaiteriez créer un écran d’accueil pour les préférences, un seul pour SeamlyMe et Seamly2D.

L’idée d’ajouter des préférences qui peuvent être configurées sur un écran de démarrage ne vise pas à remplacer les préférences normales. Ce serait de configurer les paramètres de base tels que les unités de langue et de modèle la première fois que l’application est utilisée pour démarrer sans avoir à rechercher comment les définir.