Re: [E-devel] Re: Checking out e17 from cvs???

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Sorry i meant to send this to the mailling list. I just got tangled and
sended it only to bam....<br>
till varoquaux wrote:
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BAM wrote:
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    <pre wrap="">On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 16:22 +0900, Carsten Haitzler wrote:
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      <pre wrap="">On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 11:37:44 +0100 till varoquaux
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      <pre wrap="">babbled:
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        <pre wrap="">If so I have a suggestion:
_Configuration files are saved in text mod. _When a programm boots
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    <pre wrap=""><!---->up it
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        <pre wrap="">builds the edb file and puts it somewhere else than /etc
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    <pre wrap=""><!---->(say /var/cache
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        <pre wrap="">for instance).
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      <pre wrap="">ooh yay! 2 configuration files and not knowing which one is actually
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Right, and then somebody can write e17keyedit, which changes the cached
config and not the real one!

(Though till's idea isn't really the same as epp. :)

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Well the idea was that the edb (or eet which in this case would be more
of a directory) file&nbsp; is read only for everything else than the text
parser. E17keyedit would edit the text file.<br>
Text files would need to be read and parsed only once after every
modifications, the rest of the time the binary file being up to date it
would be the only one read.<br>
This makes sens only for configuration files and on environements were
space isn't critical (not cell phone and pda's). I don't think it would
increase the bloat very much (since you'd have to parse the
configuration file only after its modifications). However Raster knows
what he is doing way better than I do and he does have some very good
arguments.<br>
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And since I'm here my first CHI advice:<br>
Poping out/transparent menus are a reall treat however the user has to
know they are there (I know this sounds a little silly but try to get
your grand'ma to use your computer and you'll see what I mean). I think
they should be expended when the application pops up and retract
afterwards (I'm mainly thinking about entice's main theme).<br>
-Does everyone think this is sensible?<br>
Till<br>
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