FreeLists / openbeos / [openbeos] Re: openbeos Digest V3 #121

["Sikosis" <beos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

ah ... So what people are really after is a cmd line pref editing tool for 
running from the Terminal? ie. Telnetting into your remote box.

I'll add this to the list of Pref additional feature requests. I'd suggest an 
app that knows what format to expect for each preflet - that way we don't end 
up with the problem as Michael suggested.

Cheers 

Sikosis 
http://obos.gravity24hr.com/


Eike Dehling <e.e.dehling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>>In any case, you have just put a hammer in the hand of an infant.
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>I like to have a hammer. :)
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>>Remember - our goal is not to be Unix. There doesn't have to be (and 
>>shouldn't be) a dozen different ways to do the same thing. Nor is choice 
>>always good. That is one of the reasons that Linux is so unfriendly on the 
>>desktop. There are too many ways to do the same thing and none of them are 
>>simple enough.
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>Does "doing it better" have to mean, storing things in a not 
>human-readable format ? I think not. When you ever want to use OBOS for 
>small server tasks, having things editable by hand might just come in 
>handy when you need to do some remote configuration changes. If you have 
>a decent format, say a human-readable dump of a BMessage, this would be 
>quite a lot nicer in that case. And should not be a burden in any other 
>case.
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>Eike.
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