On 7 Oct 2009, at 23:00, David Chisnall wrote:
On 7 Oct 2009, at 22:38, Matt Rice wrote:
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 2:28 PM, Stef Bidi <stefanb...@gmail.com>
wrote:
<snip>
13.0) there's not way for me
to set a default, "preferred" theme--which is what the GUI
toolkits above
allow you to do--there is just no way for me to do that. I know
it's been
brought up a few times in the past, and if I remember correctly
it's because
of the way NSUserDefaults is setup, so (again, in my opinion)
that's where
the problem lies.
I believe you are mistaken, NSUserDefaults handles global settings
fine, you just need to add the default to the NSGlobalDomain,
Unless I have missed something, NSGlobalDomain is a per-user thing.
Yes.
There is no sensible way of setting a default value for a user
default globally.
GlobalDefaults.plist does that.
Apps can do this via the standard APIs, but there is no way for
packagers to provide a default value for a default.
GlobalDefaults.plist does that.
For example, we can put Camaelon and Nesedah in a package, but there
is no way to make it the default theme for any users who have not
selected a theme as part of the package installation.
GlobalDefaults.plist does that.
This question has been asked on the list before and no one replied
with a way, so I assume it is still impossible.
Maybe nobody bothered to answer, or they did and you missed it.
It would be nice to have a standard directory for plists which are
merged together to provide the default user default values. I
looked at doing this a while ago, but it required implementing
whiteout in the per-user defaults (so you could delete a default
that exists in this directory).
The per-user defaults override the global ones ... what we don't have
is a mechanism for having global defaults which can't be
overridden .... but I'm not sure we want to do that (it seems to be
against the spirit of free software).
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