[openbeos] Re: Preferences/File Help
- From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 03:38:44 +0100 (MET)
> The preference apps were written (apparently) without any
> specification for a
> unified format.Although it'd be nice to be able read the settings
> files, I'm
> not so sure that it's a requirement if we can't seem to reverse the
> format.
> My guess is that they might be libprefs or some other preferences
> library
> format. Maybe we should simply go with flattened BMessages, ASCII, or
> XML
> with my vote going for BMessages. Thoughts, anyone?
I really don't think that it's of any importance to read in the old
settings files - okay, it would be nice if it's working, but I wouldn't
mind if it's not.
Since we don't have a simple XML Kit, I would vote for BMessages.
Adios...
Axel.
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