From: Jonatan L. <th...@ho...> - 2004-03-28 11:49:04
|
On Sat, 27 Mar 2004 17:10:09 -0800 Ken Hayber <kh...@so...> wrote: > Jonatan Liljedahl wrote: > > On Sat, 27 Mar 2004 15:25:35 -0800 Ken Hayber <kh...@so...> > > wrote: > > > > Yes, the thought was that the Choices are already separate, and the > > Options.xml files are small so it wouldn't hurt to copy them to the > > apps Choices directory, and then the filer could scan > > ~/Choices/*/Options.xml and present a central configure window. > > The problem with this is that it would only work if the App did not > use any custom controls which requre callbacks to source in the App > itself. The Filer would know nothing about this and would need to > launch the App and somehow communicate with it. Otherwise each App > would have to split off all its Options handling code to a separate > utility or somesuch. Yes, you're right, that could be a problem. Ok, let's drop the idea of a central configure central. =) > > Ah well, this was just a thought. Maybe a central place to configure > > > > many stuff is not a good thing, to be honest I don't feel > > particulary > > need for it myself. =) > > > > BUT, I would very much like a hardcoded "Options" item added to the > > appmenu's, just like "Help" is! Then it would be easy to bring up > > the > > options for the WM (assuming it's a ROXish WM like OroboROX) and > > ROX-Session. > > Yes, having a standard way to get to the options is a good idea - one > that OS X has done extremely well I think. How have they done it? But the problem you talked about above would exist also here, if some custom controls require callback to the app the filer would have to communicate with it... > > Well, the WM and ROX-session will already have AppDir's, why make > > separate ones for their options? > > I think (and believe others have said the same) that some of the > configuration options in Session have no logical association with > Session (e.g. GTK theme). Same for Filer I guess. These should move > to a ROX-Settings utility I think. Otherwise people keep asking 'how > do I ...?' because they don't think to look in Session's Options. Ok, then I'm online... =) I agree on that. /Jonatan __ | __ ____ _ ____ |__/__ _____ _____||___ (_) ____ _____| | )(_____|( | )(_____||_____ | (______(_____| ===============|===================================== __| http://kymatica.com |