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- Subject: Re: app_defs.sys
- Date: Mon, 01 Aug 1994 12:00:03 +1000
- From: Warwick Allison <warwick@cs.uq.oz.au>
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-
- Ofir Gal wrote:
- >
- >What for? Just let programs save their own default. Ithink many of thiese
- >overcomplications come from Unix people. We don't need this sort of stuff
- >in GEM. Apps should look in their own directory for their INF file, so what
- >is the point of defining it in another file.
-
- It's this kind of approach that has given us these thousands of
- AUTO-folder config-hackers. If an app-specific defaults file is
- pointed to from the app_defs.sys file, then it is trivial to have
- different configurations (eg. for different users, for different
- resolutions, for different OS). Also, if they are in the same form
- as the app_defs file, they can be edited by a single defaults editor,
- rather than the plethora of config dialogs we currently find in
- (good) software. 90% of my code in GEM GnuChess is just to allow the
- user to select different attributes for the board (because a monochrome
- config looks ugly in colour and a colour one looks terrible in mono,
- and because different people/resolutions have different palettes, etc., etc.)
-
- --
- Warwick
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