Re: [ros-kernel] Re: ROS gui

[Royce M. I. <ro...@ev...>]

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> I guess a registry backup applications that ignores system settings could
> fix this.

Not exactly sure what you mean here.

> A progress bar that sticks at the 35% mark for five minutes will make the
> user believe the application froze. That's what I thought when I installed
> OpenOffice two weeks ago.

A progress bar that sticks at 35% is a frozen application, or a badly
designed
process. After about a minute I would have killed it.

On the flip side of this, I've seen Explorer freeze, with the animation
still running.

An "elapsed time" field is probably the best indication that an app has not
frozen.

> How much memory do waste by not using hand-optimized assemly language but
> C++, C# or a 4GL language? It always depends on which prize you are
willing
> to pay.

Hehe, that's a deep dark well to jump into. My point was that I don't think,
in most instances, that cacheing settings will have a significant
performance impact.

OTOH, I was thinking while driving to church today, and we might possibly
want our explorer clone to go ahead and use the registry, if we want to
maintain compatibility with existing explorer plugins. HKCR must obviously
be there, and work the same, because too many applications rely on it, and
modify it directly.

Now this brings up a nasty situation. Many explorer settings are under
HKLM/Software/Microsoft/...   Would we want to put our settings in same
place for compatibility ( and findability ) ?