On 11/03/2014 12:09, Peter Levart wrote:
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What is the purpose of changing the scheme? Is it just to be more
power-user and developer friendly? To enable users to inspect the
preferences with filesystem tools? What about a little command-line
and/or gui "jprefs" tool in the style of regedit or gconftool or
similar? Would that be enough to satisfy the goal? Any of the options
A...D seem a compatibility nightmare for majority of programs that use
preferences. Most users don't ever inspect directories starting with
dot '.', so this feature is more or less targeted at developers,
right? A tool that is standard part of JRE distribution could do the
job of browsing (and perhaps changing of) the preferences without
compatibility concerns...
This is mostly about complaints from those with scripts that are forced
to deal with special characters in the file name. I don't think the
preferences API is used very much so it might not be worth doing
anything. If it does change and it might need a tool to migrate existing
preferences, all depends on the approach.
-Alan
