[Althea-devel] preferences settings

[Carl G. <ghe...@cs...>]

First a question - does althea currently show folders other than the
inbox? (Its not working for me, but i'm only talking to exchange)

What i'm actually mailing about.

I'm just looking through the code and noticed lots of stuff like:

gtk_widget_set_usize (main_window, 700, 550);
gtk_clist_set_column_width (GTK_CLIST (message_list), 0, 100);

One of the things I kind of expect as a user is to be able to have the
program load up as I left it.

I'd like to play with this a little, so i'd like to open discussion on
what and where these things should be stored.

The obvious solution for storage is ~/.althearc

My initial thoughts on structure

<PREFERENCES>
	<STARTUP>
		<XWIDTH>700</XWIDTH> //Something cosistent with -geometry
		<YHEIGHT>550</YHEIGHT>
		<XPOS>10</XPOS>
		<YPOS>10</YPOS>
	</STARTUP>
	<FROM>
		<SHOW>TRUE</SHOW> //Perhaps later being able to remove columns
		<WIDTH>100</WIDTH>
	</FROM>
	<SUBJECT>
		<SHOW>TRUE</SHOW> //Perhaps later being able to remove columns
		<WIDTH>100</WIDTH>
	</SUBJECT>
	:     :
	:     :
</PREFERENCES>

Thoughts/suggestions/other ?


Carl