| From: | Jim Peters |
| Date: | 20 Sep 2000 at 09:51:00 |
| Subject: | Re: AMIOPEN: GUI Standardization |
On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 08:30:52AM +0200, Juan Carlos Marcos Rodr�guez wrote:
> From: Rafael Vicar�a Alloza <rafael.vicaria@ibm.net>
>
> > *all* configuration files should be ASCII, so humans can read
> > and understand it. No exceptions.
>
> Or, all configuration files could use a binary format, and only one tool to
> edit them all. There could be advantages, like being impossible to make
> syntax mistakes, and with some work, the universal config file editor (COFEE
> 8^) could provide a tree structure to see settings for all programs, swap
> them quickly for testing purposes, take care to notify applications that use
> them, and functions to copy and paste blocks, automate backups and the like.
> Now, if someone thinks I'm talking Windows registry here, perhaps that's the
> idea, only better. What do you think?
There may be some elements here in common with the `no-files' approach
of the as-yet-unseen Amiverse object world thing. Everything
(including settings) is an object, which gets stored somehow or other
- we don't care how, so long as it looks the same next time we see it.
Presumably the desktop is the interface to these objects (your COFEE
editor), and there will be hundreds of helpful tools to let you change
things.
Possible, maybe ? We'll have to wait and see.
Jim