On Thu, 07 Jan 2010 17:51:38 -0800, Rufus <n...@home.com> in
mozilla.support.seamonkey wrote:
>>> I guess this doesn't surprise me. Just one more example of the
>>> interface not being in step with the code...now I can't trust what I see
>>> in about:config or what it actually does either?
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>
>> But hasn't that always been the case, stretching back into netscape?
>>
>> I believe that there are some vestigial files as well...........
>>
>> jim
>
>And that's why I'm not a fan of fiddling with about:config...user
>input/control should be provided in user Preference panels - it's one
>thing if I come here and get info on a workaround from a knowledgeable
>individual, in advance of a forthcoming fix, but as a general, generic
>user I should never even have to think about about:config.
>
>Just trying to get people to think before/when they code.
>
>--
> - Rufus
Why be critical of the coding and structure? The price is right. :-)
Observationally, i could make a case for why both things i mentioned are
as they are.
A quick character string search in the profile subdirectory tree branch
show about 27 files (after deducting email containers and a couple other
likely candidates) containing the word "Netscape".
So what? I don't care why, it most likely has to do with program
dependencies. The first one i looked at was install.rdf and referenced
"netscape navigator".
Until Seamonkey 2.0, the bookmarks.html file was headed with:
"<!DOCTYPE NETSCAPE-Bookmark-file-1>
<!-- This is an automatically generated file.
It will be read and overwritten.
DO NOT EDIT! -->"
And guess what? If you export bookmarks from Seamonkey 2.0.1, the
resulting file *still is* headed that way.
And so what? Some program probably expects to see that, and if the export
routine was rewritten for 2.0, whoever wrote it found the header to be
irrelevant -- it could say "this file fresh from Alpha Centauri" if that
was what some subroutine expected to see OR maybe they just saw no reason
to change it. Not changing it did not hurt anyone.
Now that verbose explanation was about vestigial (or dependent, internally
or externally) parts within files, but i think you can extrapolate that to
the other things mentioned.
Use Occam's razor.
Now, I am stumped on transferring over 500 bookmarks to a fresh
installation of 2.0.1 from another in-network installation of 2.0.1. On
that, i need help and it may or may not exceed 'click this button'.
jim
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