Stefan Bidigaray wrote: > That reminds me of another point worth discussing... the defaults > system. What you're saying here is not simple to do exactly because the > user HAS to change the defaults themselves. Take for example GTK+ > settings, all a distribution have to do to get a new look is add the > file $SYS_CONFIG_DIR/gtk- 2.0/gtkrc. If the distributor, for whatever > reason, decides to change the standard theme all they have to do is > write a new file and replace the old one. Under GNUstep, on the other > hand, there's no way around the fact that GNUstep doesn't offer a global > configuration file. If a distributor wants a default set of settings, > they have to come up with a way to write defaults to every user, while > at the same time making sure they don't override the user's own > defaults. In my opinion, someone should be able to at least set > NSGlobalDomain setting under a global file. > > I brought this up almost a year ago, and remember that the issue was > that NSUserDefaults wasn't set up to have more than 1 file and so would > need to be rewritten. Since then, I've tried playing with it (seeing as > I have to come up with something for my ScreenSaverDefaults class) and > I'm trying to understand if better so that I can do something about this. > Yes, I also think about user defaults from time to time. Splitting them up into different files for example, so each application could ship with a separate default setting. Having a multi level lookup also sounds interesting, but will require a bit more thinking.
> > As for the slogan, why can't we use the existing one? Yes, I found out > we already have one: > GNUstep - The Ultimate Development Environment ( > http://www.gnustep.org/information/GNUstep-brochure.pdf) > Saying we're the best never goes out of style... :) I had forgotten about that, love it :-) _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list Discuss-gnustep@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep