This Engineering Notebook post discusses issues relating to Leo's new layouts. As of today, the "devel" branch contains these PRs:
- PR #4055 <https://github.com/leo-editor/leo-editor/pull/4055>: Add "@string qt-layout-name" setting. - PR #4058 <https://github.com/leo-editor/leo-editor/pull/4058>: retire the reload-outline command. These PRs ensure that Leo's new layouts will work as desired for almost all Leonistas. *Changing layouts during execution* Almost nobody, myself included, needs (or wants) to change the layout of a particular outline *while Leo is running*. Instead, Leonistas can: - Assign *default layouts for all outlines* in myLeoSettings.leo. - Assign *per-outline layouts* by adding the setting in individual outlines. Also, Leonistas can change outlines dynamically using the use-*whatever*-layout commands. In today's codebase, these commands execute the restart-leo command. *Changing layouts without restarting Leo* Thomas wants to change layouts *without *restarting Leo. This isn't an unreasonable request, but doing it is fraught. The original attempt involved adding a 'reload-outline' command, but this command is too tricky for me to fix. *Summary* Leo's codebase should satisfy almost all users' desires regarding layouts. I would like to release Leo 6.8.2 on Thursday, September 5. I have zero interest in resurrecting the reload-outline command, but I'll consider a PR that makes it work. This PR would be part of Leo 6.8.3. Your comments, please. Edward -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to leo-editor+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/leo-editor/96ee4246-a81e-42f8-8e4b-9bfb47a4e60en%40googlegroups.com.
