Re: AW: PrefPanes for GNUstep

[M. Uli Kusterer]

In article <mailman.4834.1098543061.2017.discuss-gnustep@gnu.org>,
 "Chris B. Vetter" <cbv@gmx.net> wrote:

> I did. KoAppKit has/had a PreferencePane looking similar to
> the one on Next/Openstep. In addition to the usual stuff
> you can add and remove a preference 'on the fly' (without
> changing the order of all remaining preferences).

 Hmmm... I'm not quite sure what you mean by "remove a preference on the 
fly". System Preferences on MacOS X just lists whatever is in the 
various (~|System|)/Library/PreferencePanes/ directories. So, remove one 
from there and relaunch the app and it's gone. On some Linuxes, Unixes 
and OS X one could probably use kqueue to watch these folders and 
dynamically rebuild the list as needed.

 The Mac version (though not my GSSystemPreferences right now) actually 
also has a "table of contents" pane on which you can click on icons to 
switch between panes. MacOS also allows drag-and-dropping icons from 
this TOC into a toolbar for ready access. I chose to go with the style 
of Apple System 6's "Control Panel" and used an NSTableView at the left 
instead, simply because that was easiest to do.

Cheers,
-- Uli Kusterer
http://www.zathras.de