On Tuesday, 14 December 2004, at 20:42:04 (-0500), Peter Hyman wrote: > Well, excuse me. Don't be elitist.
You're new here. I'm not. You didn't know this has been hashed through before. I did. So if informing you of that fact is "elitist," then I'll wear that label proudly. > No. There is one db file that Entrance uses. The rest are EET. And none are text. Hmmm, I think my previous comment regarding consistency still stands. :-) > This config file is in etc where all but one file I can think of are > text. http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#ETCHOSTSPECIFICSYSTEMCONFIGURATION It says nothing about text vs. binary config files, so as long as the binary configs are correct for the local machine, their contents are irrelevant. > I fail to see how my "gripe" as you call it is unreasonable. I also > fail to see how making a config file open, without having to write a > program to edit it is unreasonable, I never said it was. But the decision was made ages ago, and we all get to live with it. > I suppose, it depends on who you think your audience is. If it's > people like me, end users that enjoy the latest in tech trends and > like to tinker, then your library-only approach to configuration > editing is not going to fly. I beg to differ. So long as tools exist to enable easy manipulation (import/export/edit) of the configs, there's really no reason *not* to have binary configs. And since everything is still under development, you must accept that some of the tools may be incomplete/missing. > However, just because someone thinks there is a more practical way > to do something is no reason to flame. That was not a flame. > If I am too "ignorant" for your tastes then perhaps I am wasting my > time trying to figure out what E is all about. I never called you ignorant, though you were ignorant of the previous discussions of this issue. And how you invest your time is no concern of mine. I'm just telling you the text vs. binary debate is long over. Michael -- Michael Jennings (a.k.a. KainX) http://www.kainx.org/ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> n + 1, Inc., http://www.nplus1.net/ Author, Eterm (www.eterm.org) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "I have tasted my own hunger, sold my body to survive. Some have paid to scratch the surface, but they can't touch what's inside." -- Richard Marx, "Children of the Night" ------------------------------------------------------- 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
