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List:       kde
Subject:    Re: KRegistry and KResource
From:       Bavo De Ridder <bavo () ace ! ulyssis ! student ! kuleuven ! ac ! be>
Date:       1998-11-17 17:09:19
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Hello,

For my answer to this comment, please read my mail about the Virtual Config
System. I don't know whether this mail made it to the mailinglist. At least
nobody is responding to it, compared to the responses I got on KRegistry, this
is very weird...


Bavo De Ridder

On Tue, 17 Nov 1998, Fester Zigterman wrote:
>On Sat, 14 Nov 1998, Bavo De Ridder wrote:
>>Hello,
>>
>>I just posted the mail about the KRegistry proposition. Then I started
>>reading the archive about the discussion "KRegistry <=> rc files". These
>>where the only arguments that where brought up against a binary Registry
>>(and I don't say that my project would even use a binary file, it could be
>>LDAP, SQL, XML, plain text, ....)
>>
>>1) Text files can easily be edited by hand
>>
>>My answer: yes, nut do you want to do this. If the KDE becomes really
>
>>From a developers point of view I do. Text files are testable.
>Text file configuration are a UNIX tradition because they are very fixable.
>Also, UNIX tools like grep and sed and scripts in general can be applied 
>to them. 
>
>>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?
>
>Of course Joe User will use the dialogs.
>
>>2) The registry is large, not manageable. I won't find wat I want.
>
>This is a valid complaint. Let's find a way to organize settings in
>a more coherent way than the Windows Registry to say the least...
>
>>functional, CORAB enabled, KOffice will probably have hundreds of not
>>thousands of settings, and not always as simple as "pixmappath=....".
>
>Indeed, we should analyze all needed config syntaxes and evaluate then.
>
>>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 :-)
>
>I hope I gave you some.
>
>
>A related matter is finding Resources in general, like mimetype files.
>It would be nice if we had a way to find files independent of their location,
>transparent to the application.
>
>I put up a document on my site:
>
>http://cal040052.student.utwente.nl/resource.html
>
>It describes a way for KDE to find files/resources. Configuration files
>are just another type of resource :)
>
>BYE
>Fester
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