Terminal as replicant doesn't respect settings

[scottmc]

To duplicate, change the color settings of the terminal, and then drag it out as a replicant, you then see your colors go back to black on white. I think this was in hrev25374

[jackburton]

All settings are ignored when terminal is a replicant. This happens because settings are saved/loaded at the window level, not at the TermView level.

This was done because I thought one could want to use different settings when embedding the TermView either directly or via replicant. But maybe this wasn't a good idea... maybe I should move settings again into TermView. Thoughts ?

[axeld]

For the ActivityMonitor, I used the following method: usually, it reads its settings in the window class, puts it into a message, and passes this one to the ActivityView. When archiving the ActivityView, it would remember these settings, and store it in its own message. That way, it takes over the current settings at the time the replicant was initialized, but still allows its own settings afterwards.

In any case, as stippi mentioned, the replicant must include the scrollview to be of use, so there needs to be some sort of shell anyway.

[jackburton]

Replying to axeld:

For the ActivityMonitor, I used the following method: usually, it reads its settings in the window class, puts it into a message, and passes this one to the ActivityView. When archiving the ActivityView, it would remember these settings, and store it in its own message. That way, it takes over the current settings at the time the replicant was initialized, but still allows its own settings afterwards.

Ok, thanks, I'll have a look at what you did in ActivityView.

In any case, as stippi mentioned, the replicant must include the scrollview to be of use, so there needs to be some sort of shell anyway.

To fix this problem, the TermView itself could include the scrollbar... I haven't put much thinking on this yet, though.

[scottmc]

Bonus points if you can also allow transparentcy. ;)

[scottmc]

Seeing as the replicant feature has been removed from terminal, this ticket can also be closed.

[axeld]

Thanks for the note.