On 13 Nov 2007, at 14:02, Stefan Bidigaray wrote:
On Nov 13, 2007 2:14 AM, Richard Frith-Macdonald
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Actually, the current code (since about 18 months ... before the
1.13.0 release) already allows you to set up system-wide defaults by
putting them in the GNUstep.conf file (and/or on a per-user basis by
putting them in the user's GNUstep.conf file).
However, the defaults added there are limited by the parsing rules of
that file (which is sourced by /bin/sh and make) so you can
occasionally have a situation where an app uses a default name which
can't be configured that way.
Hmm, this seems promising! Is there any documentation on how to
get this set? Seeing as most distros would only need to set
NSGlobalDomain defaults (for things such as NSInterfaceStyle,
NSMeasurementUnit, etc) I think this is already very powerful, and
useful.
It's documented (poorly I guess) in the main base library
documentation (Base.gsdoc/Base.html) under the docmentation of the
gNUstep.conf file.
Basically ...
GNUSTEP_EXTRA=foo,bar
Says we have two extra keys to go in the defaults system ... foo and bar
foo=fibble
bar=feep
Defines the values for those two extra keys.
Actually, another limitation is that these keys can only be
strings ... so we really ought to implement a fully functional global
defaults mechanism ... but really that's quite simple, we could just
have GNUstep.conf specify a property list file (eg GNUstep.plist)
stored in the same location as GNUstep.conf and parse that at the
same time as parsing the GNUstep.conf
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