- made some corrections - due of recent refactoring PyCharm reported errors all over (not correct but it made programming difficult)

- modified the requirements.txt file to force svg.path module to be at least version 4.0

flatcamGUI/preferences/general/GeneralPreferencesUI.py

@@ -1,9 +1,24 @@
 from PyQt5 import QtWidgets
+from PyQt5.QtCore import QSettings
 
 from flatcamGUI.preferences.general.GeneralAppPrefGroupUI import GeneralAppPrefGroupUI
 from flatcamGUI.preferences.general.GeneralAPPSetGroupUI import GeneralAPPSetGroupUI
 from flatcamGUI.preferences.general.GeneralGUIPrefGroupUI import GeneralGUIPrefGroupUI
 
+import gettext
+import FlatCAMTranslation as fcTranslate
+import builtins
+
+fcTranslate.apply_language('strings')
+if '_' not in builtins.__dict__:
+    _ = gettext.gettext
+
+settings = QSettings("Open Source", "FlatCAM")
+if settings.contains("machinist"):
+    machinist_setting = settings.value('machinist', type=int)
+else:
+    machinist_setting = 0
+
 
 class GeneralPreferencesUI(QtWidgets.QWidget):
     def __init__(self, decimals, parent=None):
@@ -25,4 +40,4 @@ class GeneralPreferencesUI(QtWidgets.QWidget):
         self.layout.addWidget(self.general_gui_group)
         self.layout.addWidget(self.general_app_set_group)
 
-        self.layout.addStretch()
+        self.layout.addStretch()