GUI Preferences: Bug or feature?

[Thorsten Liebig]

Hi,

After sending this to the wrong mailing list, here it is again ;)

I did some changes concerning the "Preferences" in the Octave GUI.

What I noticed is, that changes to the e.g. "Editor" Preferences would only 
affect newly opened editor tabs.

For example: Disabling line numbers, would not affect currently open tabs.

My question: Is this a desired effect. Because I would expect that if you 
change some preferences it would effect all editor tabs, already open and
new ones.

Changing this behavior would require quite some doing, the Settings Dialog 
would need to emit a signal, that changes have been made and all GUI
classes would need to have a new slot to receive this signal and eventually act 
on it.

I would be willing to look into it, but not if the current behavior is desired 
as it is. To me this looks like it should be changed...

regards
Thorsten