On Tue, 25 May 2004, Ben Armstrong wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 21:50, Mark K. Kim wrote:
> > It would be nice, though, if the config program can simply query the Tux
> > Paint binary to get the list of available languages and charsets, similar
> > to `tuxpaint --lang help` but with more information, so the hard coding
> > doesn't need to be done in two different places, in the main program and
> > the config program. Furthermore, it'd be even cooler if the Tux Paint
> > could be queried to get the *complete* list of options and its logical
> > grouping so the config program doesn't need to have *any* hard coded
> > information about Tux Paint's options, so it doesn't need to be updated
> > whenever Tux Paint program gets updated with new options.
> >
> > What does everyone on the tuxpaint-dev list think? Comments please!
>
> Yes.
>
> And cooler still would be to establish this as a standard for all
> Tux4Kids stuff.
Oo~ there's a thought. Better yet, if ALL open-source programs did
that...
One can dream...
Seriously, I like Ben's idea. Maybe that's something we can think about
as a next stage (or *next* *next* stage?) after getting the
tuxpaint-config program working! =)
-Mark
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