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Settings: the difference between System and Device is hard to discern

Open rcoreilly opened this issue 2 months ago • 1 comments

Describe the bug

I can not predict what setting will be in either panel. Just have to randomly look at both to find what I'm looking for. Even the names are not very clear: what is device?

Proposal:

System:

  • Key map*
  • Editor
  • 24-hour clock plus file stuff:
  • User
  • Big file size
  • Saved paths max
  • Fav paths

Appearance adds from current system:

  • Only close active tab
  • Max menu height
  • Inline lengths (as a sub-struct): Map, Struct, Slice

Timing has all the remaining timing and distance parameters from Device and System

Plus, and the reason I'm filing this now, I need to add PDF settings, that will go in system under Editor, to specify default page size (A4 vs. Letter)

How to reproduce

open the settings panel..

Example code


Relevant output


Platform

macOS

rcoreilly avatar Oct 01 '25 07:10 rcoreilly

This is fixed in #1619

rcoreilly avatar Oct 14 '25 08:10 rcoreilly