Joe Smith wrote: > Mathias Bauer wrote: >> Joe Smith wrote: >> >>> Why does OOo not have a tool like Windows' regedit, or Mozilla's >>> about:config, or GConf's gconf-editor, where the OOo "registry" could be >>> searched and edited directly? >> >> You can a lot of good XML editors to do so. This is even more >> comfortable as "about:config", in most cases it also beats the Windows >> registry editor. > > That is surprising to me. From my limited understanding of OOo's > "registry" -- what is the right name? -- the XML form is quite different >>from the functional content once all the individual data files are > merged. I would think a functional view, like OOo will 'see' when using > the database, would be needed.
I didn't consider that you wanted to edit user settings as they have been created from OOo anyway - so why editing them externally? My understanding was that you wanted to change the settings you usually can't access from inside OOo. Sorry if that was a wrong assumption. > > What do you use to build and maintain the database? Wait, let me guess: > vi? Emacs? ;-) > >> IIRC XMLSpy was a quite capable editor in this regard. > > Riiight. I'll let you ask them about open-sourcing that ;-) > > I've not seen a FLOSS one that I wanted to use for more than 30s. You didn't make that restriction when you asked. :-) > But isn't that another reason that a specialized tool is needed? I agree that it would be better than the raw XML file access. Needed? Perhaps. The API to work on the OOo configuration is available, so everybody is invited to write such tool. > Would it be helpful to have a specific request on file, or a skeleton > project page, so someone with the skills to put something together could > have a good start? I think that should be doable. You can get the basic idea how to work with the configuration from the Developers's Guide that explains it. Some code examples at least in Java should be there also. Ciao, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't reply to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". I use it for the OOo lists and only rarely read other mails sent to it. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
