On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Jacqueline Landman Gay wrote:
> Scott Raney wrote:
>
> > This really gets back to the issue of "are stacks documents or
> > applications?" debate that has come up several times in various places
> > over the years. My UNIX and CS background causes me to consider them
> > applications, whereas people with a less technical background tend to
> > consider them documents. Not sure where to draw the line on this
> > one: Abide by user expectations, or force them to adapt to a more
> > technically sophisticated architecture?
>
> How about adding a preference setting to MC, allowing the user to set
> whether the development environment launches or not? That way you
> wouldn't have to decide whether or not stacks are apps, and everyone
> could work according to their own preferred method. The default could be
> the way it is now (launch MC first before opening a stack if you want to
> develop) but could be overridden by a preference checkbox that forces
> all stack launches to be opened in development mode.
Except that the preferences are stored in the Home stack because there
isn't any other cross-platform-compatible place to put them...
Regards,
Scott
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