Joe Smith wrote: > Why does OOo not have a tool like Windows' regedit, or Mozilla's > about:config, or GConf's gconf-editor, where the OOo "registry" could be > searched and edited directly?
You can a lot of good XML editors to do so. This is even more comfortable as "about:config", in most cases it also beats the Windows registry editor. IIRC XMLSpy was a quite capable editor in this regard. > If the items OOo in the registry were annotated, which I think it could > be since it is an XML data store, it would be a reasonably accessible > interface to all the settings, without having to provide a lovely dialog > for them all. Look on the OOo configuration schema files: they *are* annotated. Besides that I think that if someone was not pleased with the existing XML editors and needed a special configuration editor he should write one himself and contribute it to OOo. This definitely is something that can be done without deep OOo knowledge. Knowing about XML and programming abilities in a language of choice would be enough. Java or Python would be nice as it could be used on all platforms then. > A quick look shows no requests, but it seems like an obvious benefit to me. We are working hard on the requests already, there's no time to look for "obvious benefits" that noone requested before. ;-) Ciao, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't reply to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". I use it for the OOo lists and only rarely read other mails sent to it. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
