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Date: Mon, 1 Aug 94 14:59 BST-1
From: ogal@cix.compulink.co.uk (Ofir Gal)
Subject: Re: app_defs.sys
To: gem-list@world.std.com
Message-Id: <memo.833694@cix.compulink.co.uk>
Precedence: bulk
abaddon@nasoftwr.demon.co.uk said:
> >
>Come on Ofir, surely I just read that wrong. You didn't just say that if a
>vote went against you you'd quit the list did you???
I did in the case of ^A, but I did not say that before the vote, unlike
Tim who tried to use it to pressure people. I believe that ^A is so well
establshed, and is one of the very few standards we do not need to define.
It seems every program uses it. If we changed that, the whole proposal
will not be taken seriously by developers and the whole excercise will vbe
a waste of time - which I haven't got.
In no way am I saying that I will unsubscribe if things don't go my way.
But for me it's like joining a Socialist party who later decides (with a
majority) to become capitalist.
abaddon@nasoftwr.demon.co.uk said:
>
>Selection of words in editable objects should be done by the library, not the
>programmer. In which case its not a problem for the programmer at all, he
>just creates a textfield and forgets about it.
Yes, but someone has to write the library. In most cases, people use their
own libraries, which doesn't make any changes to the interface too easy.
warwick@cs.uq.oz.au said:
>
>The per-application stuff I and others have posted about is totally
>identical to global preferences. I'll just explain this part again.
>Say we have lines in the defs file that look like this:
I understand this, but there were things like saving the other default
like sampling rate and default font which I strongly object to.
>>KEYS
>>*.*.*.*.*.*.
>>etc...
>>
>>DIALOGS
>>*.*.*.*.*.*
>>etc.
>
>as it is far more complex than the simple list-of-lines format that I
IT IS a list of lines, it's just that the first line in each section
describes what the section is about.
>and others have described, and is difficult to extend. The format I
Not really, you casn extend it as much as you like:
KEYS
*.*.*
*.*.*
*.*.*
*.*.*
BACKWINDOWS
*.*
*.*.*
etc.
>described is tried-and-tested on X11, and is extremely flexible.
That's what I'm woried about :-) Everything Unix oriented seems rather
wasteful in system resources.
Bye,
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Ofir ogal@cix.compulink.co.uk
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