#377 add gui preferences system via conf files

[Yvan Volochine]

this patch adds a gui-preferences system, right now for recent files only.
recently opened files are written in the user-app-config directory (i.e. ~/.config/pure-data/recentfiles.conf on linux) and read when pd launches.
this was tested on linux and osx only (I don't have access to a win32 machine).
see the following related threads:
http://www.mail-archive.com/pd-dev@iem.at/msg09330.html
http://www.mail-archive.com/pd-dev@iem.at/msg09351.html

[Yvan Volochine]

recentfiles support patch

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

This is looking good, I just have a couple comments:

- I think you should manually edit pkgIndex.tcl. the script made a bunch of changes, that are not really relevant and might affect other things. You just need to add a single line for pd_guiprefs.tcl

- preferences on Mac OS X are stored in ~/Library/Preferences rather than ~/Library/Application Support/pure-data. Ideally, this patch would also use the terminal tool 'defaults read' and 'defaults write' to create a proper Mac OS X .plist preferences file. Its not hard to do, you can see how Pd currently does it in pd/src/s_file.c. Windows needs to use the registry, that's even easier because Tcl has the built -in 'registry' command.

[Yvan Volochine]

new patch for gui prefs

[Yvan Volochine]

I finally found the time to make a new patch:
- added support for osx preferences and windows registry
- new file is now added to recentfiles if it's saved
- better error handling
- better doc (pd_guiprefs)
- bugfix 3192731 (http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3192731&group_id=55736&atid=478070)

the patch was tested on archlinux, ubuntu10.10 and osx 10.5.8
on windows I could only test the registry stuff in a tclsh prompt, please test !

[Miller Puckette]

I couldn't apply this to 0.43.. (failed on po/Makefile.am - I couldn't figure
out why).

[Yvan Volochine]

new patch that applies on current HEAD

[Yvan Volochine]

it didn't apply because of some changes in po/Makefile.am since this patch was submitted.
I just uploaded an updated patch.

[Miller Puckette]

thanks... worked that time.

[Yvan Volochine]

I forgot to include 2 small fixes in the patch, new one uploaded

[Yvan Volochine]

added small fixes

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