[bug-report] - samaaron/sonic-pi - malfunctions within the scope of HCI and Preferences (MacOS)

[ghost]

[bug-report] - samaaron/sonic-pi - malfunctions within the scope of HCI and Preferences

Greetings

I was broadcasting live to to twitch and youtube via restream and:

• _{sonic pi stopped receiving user input}

My first was:

• _{there is a corruption within the sonic pi input}

what could be the cause for that?

• _{too much preferences tweaking within UI/UX}
• _{too much code allocated in buffering}

what did I decided to do:

• _{to erase preferences;}

_{how did i achieve this? on terminal, i typed:}

_{sudo cd Preferences/ && ls -alRSA && rm -rf net.sonic-pi.gui-keys-bindings.plist net.sonic-pi.gui-settings.plist net.sonic-pi.gui-settings.plist}

what did happen?

• _{i started sonic pi}
• _{the preferences i previously had before were restored, somehow}

_{shall we consider this a bug? how can we fix this}

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[ethancrawford]

Hey @tmm2018. Similarly to https://github.com/samaaron/sonic-pi/issues/1944, a little more detail here would be very helpful. For example, what previous UI preferences did you think had been cleared, that seemed to be 'restored'?

[ghost]

It may be related to some of those:

• tweaking UI
• changing background to black
• changing to modern icons
• changing modules and re-arranging layout
• adding large portions of code to buffers

usually the way as i fix this is by:

• remove the preferences files
• remove the ~/.sonic-pi folder
• rebooting system

somtimes it works, sometimes it doesn't work

i would love to be able to have a stable version of sonic pi, once this would allow me to:

• sequencing *.scsyndefs very easily, to make more experimental and more extreme music
• sequencing beat using my own sample libraries, in order to have an algorithmic composition tool, that can work as a cool and easy to use replacement tool for ableton live

on the basis of this acessment is:

• the fact that easy, intuitive, and simple to use tools are basically the best for doing stuff with tinkering with music
• the fact that opensource alternatives to commercial software are basically better because you can modify the source legally, and coming up with your own tools

that doesn't mean:

• don't spend some time reverse engineer commercial software, and trying to bring some of its principles towards opensource, while improving those, and vice versa