From: Jason C. <ja...@re...> - 2001-02-15 21:15:09
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* ra...@ra... (ra...@ra...) wrote: > On 15 Feb, Lyle Kempler scribbled: [snip] >=20 > yeah - i thought about this.. but in the end i just came to the concept > "its too complex - waay too complex - lets keep it simple" - i just > didnt want to tackle this. my favorite exmaple was lets say the confg > for a menu - it has entires - what if the system admin re-ordeers menus > while the user is logged out- but the user has aloready re-ordered > menus himselff, deleted a few, added some and renamed some - the admin > renamed a few entries too - how the hell am i going to reconciple this? > its sounding as complex as a set of diff's now that we use with code.. > and we all knwo how if things change too much patches fail to apply... > i basically decided that the scenario of handling themerging of > multiple configs in layers ends up a mess and i was going tokeep it > simple. unless osmeone can come up with a foolproof way of making this > work without it being so hellishly complex that its bound to have nasty > bugs. This is the reason that on a M$ system there is a split between user and system menus. >=20 > -> term > -> =20 > -> _______________________________________________ > -> Enlightenment-devel mailing list > -> Enl...@li... > -> http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel >=20 > --=20 > --------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------= ------- > The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) ra...@ra... raster@valin= ux.com > ra...@en... raster@linux= .com > ra...@zi... >=20 >=20 > _______________________________________________ > Enlightenment-devel mailing list > Enl...@li... > http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel --=20 Jason Cook PGP Fingerprint: D531 F4F4 BDBF 41D1 514D F930 FD03 262E 5120 BEDD PGP Key: http://www.reinit.org/pgp/ "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie."=20 -- The Silicon Valley Tarot |