Re: User Preferences are not document settings

[Bluebie, Jenna]

Sure, nothing about this can't be implemented by a shoes app  
developer, but I think it's a common enough thing to be worth having  
in Shoes. Games like to store Highscores and the colour of your pony,  
(Micro)Blogging clients need to remember your blog's address and auth  
credentials. Even the classbook sample could be made better by having  
it remember which story you were reading last. But who can really be  
bothered writing a bunch of if's and junk to figure out where to store  
the file and when to serialize and deserialize and yadda yadda yadda  
just to remember which page you were on? Making repetitive unfun tasks  
really easy and, heck, even a little fun, is a sure fire path to great  
applications! Lets be nice and dry. This is something that can be  
implemented in shoes for just a few lines of code sprinkled here and  
there (I hope), and save us all one common repetitive task on the road  
ahead. :)

And on that note, I think I'll go checkout the latest shoes and see if  
I can implement this right now myself.