[Bitpim-devel] BitPim info in a file on the phone

[Roger B. <ro...@ro...>]

There would be some things that would make some bitpim code easier
if per phone preferences were available.  There are two places that
information can be stored.

One is within the BitPim preferences on a host machine (ie registry
on Windows, ~/.bitpim on Linux and Mac).

The other is I could put a file onto the phone's filesystem with the
information.

The latter approach is nice and simple, and lets you use as many
computers with BitPim as you want.  However it does mean a 3rd party
can tell if you use BitPim with a phone.  There is also the small 
potential to harm a phone.  For example if someone has filled up
all but 10 bytes of the EFS and BitPim then writes in a 20 byte
file, that may shaft the phone in various interesting ways.  It
wouldn't have happened if BitPim didn't save information on the 
phone.

Note that I am not doing this yet, just fishing for thoughts and
exploring the issue.

Here are two examples of information I would like to store:

 - Is the phonebook stored by Last Name First Name or First Name
   Last Name
 - A per category ringtone

Roger