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Subject:    Re: KRegistry project... some more points.
From:       Bavo De Ridder <bavo () ace ! ulyssis ! student ! kuleuven ! ac ! be>
Date:       1998-11-14 18:43:54
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On Sat, 14 Nov 1998, Bavo De Ridder wrote:

Another point:

4) I *need* to text based access to the configuration settings.

My answer: I fully agree. But using a binary format, or just not using ini
files doesn't means you can't do this anymore! It just means you can't use
your favorite text-editor anymore. Why not have a ncurses based editing
tool? Or a tool that acts like a shell and let's you edit the registry. It
is not because microsoft made a bad implementation, that the concept is
wrong...

Till the next time...


BDR



> 1) Text files can easily be edited by hand
> 
> My answer: yes, nut do you want to do this. If the KDE becomes really
> succesfull and companies are transforming to KDE, do you still think rc
> files will be edited by hand by the majority of the users? What if 70% of
> the users are the nowadays average Windows user?
> 
> By the way: If you write an application, do you want the user to fiddle
> with the config files directly or do you want him/her use the dialogs?
> 
> 2) The registry is large, not manageable. I won't find wat I want.
> 
> My answer: currently there is no application of the KDE large enough to
> produce complicated config files. What in one year, when CORAB will be
> intensively used. Or do you really think you can edit the KOffice config
> files by hand in a few months when it becoms fully functional? A fully
> functional, CORAB enabled, KOffice will probably have hundreds of not
> thousands of settings, and not always as simple as "pixmappath=....".
> 
> 3) I can mail my configuration to someone else.
> 
> My answer: there is no reason why you shouldn't be able to do this with a
> Registry. What about Windows ".reg" files? You could make utilities that
> are able to extract information from the registry and put it in a human
> readable file suitable for mailing.
> 
> I will keep reading the archive in the hope to find a reasonable argument
> in favor of rc files or an argument against a registry :-)
> 
> 
> Bavo De Ridder
> 
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