On 11/1/2009 6:34 AM, Robert Kaiser wrote: > Rick Merrill schrieb: >> Where might the settings in about:config be described? >> >> Couldn't find it in 'help' (SM 1.18). > > about:config is not designed to be an interface for normal users, and > nothing that should either be documented without holes, it's more a > graphical advanced access point to everything that is stored in the > preferences system, which includes knobs only developers or anyone doing > debugging is supposed to tweak. You know, there's a reason why we put up > a scary warning by default when you call up this about:config page. > > Robert Kaiser
Hmm. I don't get any warning. I have always advocated -- both with Mozilla-based applications and others dating back some 40 years -- to use user-oriented capabilities (e.g., [Edit > Preferences]) whenever possible. This is because user-oriented capabilities generally include necessary housekeeping about which the user will not know. However, there are tweaks the users want to do that are not supported by any user-oriented capability. They can be accomplished only by explicitly changing preference variables. For that reason, a dictionary of such variables would be useful. If carefully written, housekeeping rules, warnings, and related variables could all be documented. And remember that many SeaMonkey users are "power users" (as cited in Bug #178685). After all, if we were not power users, we would be using Firefox or IE. -- David E. Ross <http://www.rossde.com/> Go to Mozdev at <http://www.mozdev.org/> for quick access to extensions for Firefox, Thunderbird, SeaMonkey, and other Mozilla-related applications. You can access Mozdev much more quickly than you can Mozilla Add-Ons. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
