Re: [Gtk-gnutella-users] Persistent filters

[Richard E. <wyl...@us...>]

On Mit, 2002-10-30 at 20:07, Fred Souza wrote:
> Hello,
> 
>   I've searched the mailing list archives but couldn't seem to find an
>   answer to this (someone even asked the very same question I'm about to
>   ask, but I didn't see any replies).
> 
>   How do I create persistent, global filters? I've tried editing
>   searches.xml by hand and including them in the sections "Global (pre)"
>   and/or "Global (post)". After that, when I start gtk-gnutella (I'm
>   running 0.91 under FreeBSD), the filters seem to work OK. But then
>   when I close the program, it resets the filters to nothing. As a side
>   question, are there plans to make the filters edition dialog window to
>   support global filters? Currently I can only set filters for running
>   searches there. Or am I losing anything here?

Let's define some meanings here:

There are filters and rules. A filter can contain multiple or no rules.
There are three types of filters: global, search and free.

So. You can't create "global filters". You also can't create "search
filters". You can however create "free filters". You can add/remove
rules to all of them though.

Maybe the note "not editable" for the global filters is a litte
misleading here. It only means that you can't add or remove those. You
can select them and add rules to them as normal.

For a nice howto on the filters, go to http://gtk-gnutella.sf.net and to
the "Documentation" section there.

>   Oh, and another strange behaviour: gtk-gnutella doesn't seem to save
>   the window's position at closing time. Everytime I start it, it moves
>   the window to 0,0 (I've setup my window manager to remember the
>   position, then you can clearly [although it's very quick] see the WM
>   positioning the window at where it "remembers" it, but then gtk-gnutella
>   moves the window to 0,0 again).

Gtk-gnutella gets the window geometry itself and saves it to the config
file. It restores that geometry on startup, overriding the position
assigned by the window manager. This is probably not the way to do it,
so comments are welcome.

Richard