Re: [dev] paths configuration in v2.0.4

2006-10-26 Thread Andreas Schlüns
Allen Pulsifer schrieb: Hello Joerg, Thank you for your response. Just to respond further: The Current/Default distinction in that place was misguided. That should really be achieved via layering. I agree with this. There are other places in OOo where dynamically created keys have such

RE: [dev] paths configuration in v2.0.4

2006-10-23 Thread Allen Pulsifer
I also submitted two bug reports. http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=70688 http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=70687 Thanks Allen, the developer responsible for this is currently on vacation but he surely will have a look when he is back end of next

Re: [dev] paths configuration in v2.0.4

2006-10-22 Thread Mathias Bauer
Joerg Barfurth wrote: If an administrator wanted to override the value of Template path used by the application, he/she could do so with a short fragment of XML that simply replaces the value of org.openoffice.Office.Paths/Template/InternalPaths/org.openoffice.app. Apparently it was

Re: [dev] paths configuration in v2.0.4

2006-10-22 Thread Mathias Bauer
Allen Pulsifer wrote: I tested the operation of path configuration in OOo v2.0.4 and wrote up instructions on how it can be configured by an administrator. Note these instructions are based on how the path settings have been tested to work, not how they are intended or documented to work.

RE: [dev] paths configuration in v2.0.4

2006-10-22 Thread Allen Pulsifer
But you've hit the nail on the top. We have prepared for two ways of working with pathes: UserPaths can be overwritten like described here, InternalPaths are mergeable. So an admin that wants to write his own path as described by Allen and doesn't want to allow for changes made by users

RE: [dev] paths configuration in v2.0.4

2006-10-21 Thread Allen Pulsifer
Hello Joerg, Thank you for your response. Just to respond further: The Current/Default distinction in that place was misguided. That should really be achieved via layering. I agree with this. There are other places in OOo where dynamically created keys have such significance. This is the

Re: [dev] paths configuration in v2.0.4

2006-10-20 Thread Joerg Barfurth
Allen Pulsifer schrieb: I'm looking over the new Path's configuration and it seems to me the implementation is awkward and does not follow the usually configuration paradigm. In OpenOffice.org v2.0.3 and prior, paths were configured via org.openoffice.Office.Common/Path/Default and

[dev] paths configuration in v2.0.4

2006-10-17 Thread Allen Pulsifer
I'm looking over the new Path's configuration and it seems to me the implementation is awkward and does not follow the usually configuration paradigm. In OpenOffice.org v2.0.3 and prior, paths were configured via org.openoffice.Office.Common/Path/Default and