[openbeos] Re: Preferences/File Help
- From: "Nathan Whitehorn" <nathan.whitehorn@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 14:55:02 -0600 (CST)
> > It will mean that the OpenBeOS preference panels won't be swap-able
> > with
> > the BeOS R5 ones - something that I would have liked to have
> > happen.
>
> That won't be true, most preferences applications already write their
> data in flattened BMessages - these are easy to rebuild and to
> understand.
> The few ones which doesn't do this (where the Scrollbar preferences
> really doesn't matter at all), may not be interchangeable.
One more thought: it really doesn't matter if you change all the
settings formats. We've done this 3 times with MDR: no one has ever
cared. It is not particularly onerous to re-enter settings once.
-Nathan
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