On 2 Feb 2007 at 6:18, dhbailey wrote:

> dhbailey wrote:
> > Ken Moore wrote:
> >> "David W. Fenton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>
> >>> But why do you need to edit those? Don't your
> >>> applications provide UIs for changing their settings?
> >>
> >> Please will you tell me the place in the WinFin 2004 UI that allows
> >> me to set the size of the handle square.
> > 
> > Oh, well now you want to get down to the picky little details, huh? 
> > ;-)
> 
> I did want to point out that MakeMusic have finally included that
> option in the Program Options dialogue (Finale2007) although I don't
> know when they added it.  It is certainly missing in Fin2004.

I think in my first reply I missed Ken's point. I would say that any 
application that does *not* supply a user interface for user-
configurable settings is very poorly designed. 

Second, apps that don't put those settings files in the OS-defined 
appropriate location are also poorly designed.

Phil's complaint suggests that there are apps that put their settings 
in an OS-appropriate location and that those settings files cannot be 
edited in Vista. Somehow, I doubt that both of those things can 
actually be true. What I believe is more likely is that a location 
that was formerly defined as appropriate for user settings has been 
redefined in Vista as *not* appropriate.

Of course, why one simply can't edit the permissions on these files 
manually to get around the problem, I can't say. I'd assume that Phil 
is knowledgable enough to have tried that.

-- 
David W. Fenton                    http://dfenton.com
David Fenton Associates       http://dfenton.com/DFA/

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