Re: [E-devel] entranced: Feature Request

2004-12-16 Thread Peter Hyman
On Tue, 2004-12-14 at 17:09 +0100, till varoquaux wrote: The themes are not harcoded they are selected in the configuration file /etc/entrance.edb. You can edit this file with edb_gtk_ed. Have fun, Till That's my point. Maybe they shouldn't be in the db file. Why can't a user or sysadmin

Re: [E-devel] entranced: Feature Request

2004-12-16 Thread Arlo
In regards to edb files. First off, as I understand it edb is being replaced by eet and programs will be using ecore_config and examine for most of their configuration. Yes, it does break the unix tradition of text config files. I believe the E devs decided to do this because 1. It's easier to

Re: [E-devel] entranced: Feature Request

2004-12-16 Thread Michael Jennings
On Tuesday, 14 December 2004, at 13:08:15 (-0500), Peter Hyman wrote: No, you miss the point. It's consistency across different applications that matters. No, *you* miss the point. Consistency across E-related applications is what matters, and there will be consistency amongst everything that

Re: [E-devel] entranced: Feature Request

2004-12-16 Thread Peter Hyman
On Tue, 2004-12-14 at 12:26 -0500, Mike Limon wrote: That's my point. Maybe they shouldn't be in the db file. Why can't a user or sysadmin specify entranced -t todaystheme.eet to override the db file. Let's be honest. Working with edb files is not really easy. For a product like

Re: [E-devel] entranced: Feature Request

2004-12-16 Thread Ibukun Olumuyiwa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Peter Hyman wrote: | On Tue, 2004-12-14 at 17:55 -0500, Corey Donohoe wrote: | | |Have you looked into entrance_edit ? | | | entrance_edit just prints a warning and exits. It does nothing. | | $ entrance_edit /etc/X11/entrance_config.db | WARNING: not

Re: Re: [E-devel] entranced: Feature Request

2004-12-16 Thread Corey Donohoe
* Peter Hyman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Tue, 2004-12-14 at 12:26 -0500, Mike Limon wrote: No, you miss the point. It's consistency across different applications that matters. I for one prefer editing a text file. Setting a M$ type registry with keys is contra what the /etc directory is

Re: Re: [E-devel] entranced: Feature Request

2004-12-16 Thread Corey Donohoe
* Peter Hyman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Tue, 2004-12-14 at 17:09 +0100, till varoquaux wrote: The themes are not harcoded they are selected in the configuration file /etc/entrance.edb. You can edit this file with edb_gtk_ed. Have fun, Till That's my point. Maybe they shouldn't

Re: [E-devel] entranced: Feature Request

2004-12-16 Thread Peter Hyman
On Tue, 2004-12-14 at 19:53 -0500, Michael Jennings wrote: Your preference doesn't enter into it, to be blunt. The use of DB files was discussed and decided on a long time ago. You're not saying anything here that hasn't been said before...just reopening old gripes. Well, excuse me. Don't

Re: [E-devel] entranced: Feature Request

2004-12-14 Thread Mike Limon
That's my point. Maybe they shouldn't be in the db file. Why can't a user or sysadmin specify entranced -t todaystheme.eet to override the db file. Let's be honest. Working with edb files is not really easy. For a product like entrance, a plain text file configuration setup would make more

Re: [E-devel] entranced: Feature Request

2004-12-14 Thread The Rasterman
On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 20:42:04 -0500 Peter Hyman [EMAIL PROTECTED] babbled: On Tue, 2004-12-14 at 19:53 -0500, Michael Jennings wrote: Your preference doesn't enter into it, to be blunt. The use of DB files was discussed and decided on a long time ago. You're not saying