Quick poll - Toolbar style preference

[John Ralls]

On Sep 18, 2013, at 6:31 AM, Geert Janssens <janssens-geert at telenet.be> wrote:

> On Wednesday 18 September 2013 13:14:28 Geert Janssens wrote:
>> While I'm working on migrating preferences from gconf to gsettings, I
>> came across the "Toolbar Style" preference.
>> 
>> I first started to migrate it verbatim, just like most other
>> preferences, but then it occurred to me this is really a general GUI
>> preference, rather than a GnuCash specific one and that migrating it
>> would cause some extra work in the Windows build (and maybe the OS X
>> one as well).
>> 
>> So I'm inclined to remove it instead and let the user's desktop
>> environment take care of it automatically.
>> 
>> On any platform that has gnome, this should work as expected: the
>> user's system-wide preference is used automatically. I don't see why
>> someone would want to make an exception for GnuCash in such an
>> environment.
>> 
>> On Windows, gnome is not available so it defaults to both icons and
>> text. There's no obvious way to change this on that platform. I guess
>> the same goes for OS X, though John can probably confirm or disagree.
>> 
>> I'm trying to balance user benefit vs code complexity here. If I do
>> migrate the code to gsettings, that means the windows build has to be
>> revised (and maybe the OS X one as well): the current code checks for
>> system wide gconf settings. Those don't exist on Windows, but gconf
>> is tolerant for missing settings schemas. Gsettings is not. So for
>> gsettings we'd need to install the proper system wide schema
>> definitions or GnuCash would simply crash. The package that ships
>> those schema definitions is not in our build scripts yet (I will even
>> have to figure out where I can get it).
>> 
>> We could also start making platform exceptions as a workaround. But in
>> that case I'd rather see the exceptions used for better system
>> integration: figure out if Windows has some kind of system wide
>> toolbar_style property and then use that to make GnuCash behave like
>> other windows programs. And the same for OS X. Anyway, that would
>> rather be an enhancement request rather than a required feature for
>> 2.6.
>> 
>> Can others agree that I remove this option ?
>> 
>> Geert
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> 
> On top of this all, it seems that insisting users can customize the toolbar appearance using 
> .gtkrc-2.0 on Windows and OS X (in the absense of a fully configured gnome environment).
> 
> All the more reason for me to drop the preference.
> 

+1

Regards,
John Ralls