From kde-core-devel  Sat Apr 27 05:15:00 2002
From: Kevin Puetz <puetzk () iastate ! edu>
Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2002 05:15:00 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: Registry editor
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=101988469224590

Zack Rusin wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> please no punching, spitting or biting. Yesterday, I found myself going

/me hisses, you didn't ban that :-)

> ...
> Xdefaults, and ability to export and import configurations but someone
> would actually have to find a need for it, because it already does what
> I personally wanted. Let me know what you think. Oh, and of course a
> mandatory "how does it look like" thingy:
> http://vortex.bd.psu.edu/~mus11/kregedit.png

The import and export functionality could be nice. Even though it doesn't 
add any real functionality over copying the rc files, for the average user 
I bet it would be less scary then messing around in files that they don't 
know much about, it could also hook in with something along the lines of 
kconf_update to properly merge prefs into apps instead of wholly replacing 
them. That would be a fair bit of work though, to come up with a good way 
for apps to tell it what needed to be done.

For it's main purpose I don't see a lot of point, since it would just 
encourage options with no entry in the app GUI for them (and those are bad, 
since they're hard to find). There are almost never any of them that aren't 
for developmental/obsolete features that are either going away soon, or 
about to get a GUI pref.

Oh, and I'd rename it, though I'm not sure to what. It's not the registry 
here, so the name kregedit doesn't really fit :-) Maybe kconfedit or 
something.