That's what I was thinking too. Sean--wouldn't it be better if blackbox rewrote its rc-file if and only if and immediately after blackbox changed any of its config options?
On Thu, 2002-01-24 at 08:11, Guido 'lenix' Boehm wrote: > "Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> felt like writing: > > Um. This has never made sense to me. Is there any good reason that > > blackbox should overwrite its rc-file every time it exits? I really, > > really think this needs to be changed. At some point, I'm going to > > add a bbconf plugin that lets the user make changes to his/her > > blackbox rc-file. This will be an impossible task as long as > > blackbox insists on overwriting its rc-file at exit. > > > > Sean--are you open to changing this? Does anyone have a good reason > > why it shouldn't change? > > i believe the original reason why it was done this way was because > blackbox doesn't write out the rc-file immediatly after you changed > some config-option from the gui (ie adding a new workspace, change > workspace name, etc). at least, this is what i'm experiencing when > changing something, but maybe i'm wrong. > > > regards, lenix aka. guido > -- > www: http://www.lenix.de > fon: +49 - 173 - 80 99 196 > No, CTRL-ALT-DEL is not the proper way to end a programm. (RFC 1882) > -- ----%<----------%<---- Jason Kasper (vanRijn) bash$ :(){ :|:&};: Numbers 6:24-26
