Re: [E-devel] Re: Checking out e17 from cvs???

[till varoquaux]

Sorry i meant to send this to the mailling list. I just got tangled and sended it only to bam.... till varoquaux wrote: BAM wrote: On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 16:22 +0900, Carsten Haitzler wrote: On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 11:37:44 +0100 till varoquaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled: If so I have a suggestion: _Configuration files are saved in text mod. _When a programm boots up it builds the edb file and puts it somewhere else than /etc (say /var/cache for instance). ooh yay! 2 configuration files and not knowing which one is actually being used. Right, and then somebody can write e17keyedit, which changes the cached config and not the real one! (Though till's idea isn't really the same as epp. :) Well the idea was that the edb (or eet which in this case would be more of a directory) file  is read only for everything else than the text parser. E17keyedit would edit the text file. Text files would need to be read and parsed only once after every modifications, the rest of the time the binary file being up to date it would be the only one read. This makes sens only for configuration files and on environements were space isn't critical (not cell phone and pda's). I don't think it would increase the bloat very much (since you'd have to parse the configuration file only after its modifications). However Raster knows what he is doing way better than I do and he does have some very good arguments. And since I'm here my first CHI advice: Poping out/transparent menus are a reall treat however the user has to know they are there (I know this sounds a little silly but try to get your grand'ma to use your computer and you'll see what I mean). I think they should be expended when the application pops up and retract afterwards (I'm mainly thinking about entice's main theme). -Does everyone think this is sensible? Till ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/ _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel