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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>
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- 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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