On 12/13/2011 04:47 PM, Philippe Nobili wrote: > >> For now, we have no idea on what would be this new more convenient and >> more powerful facility but we'll think about it. > > Many thanks; actually the current mechanism works quite well, a very > small improvement would be fairly sufficient in our opinion. > > For your information, this is how we proceed when loading addons in XXE > in order to package it for our end-users: (afterwards, they can still > install addons of their own if they need to) > > 1. Set the addon installation location to be the XXE distribution > directory (requires the appropriate write permissions). > 2. Download/install the selected addons > 3. Reset the addons installation location to the default one > 4. Exit XXE > > We had in mind the exact same behavior for preferences: > > 1. Switch the preferences saving option to "Shared preferences" / > "Global preferences" whatever you call it. This requires appropriate > write permission to XXE installation directory. > 2. Set whatever global/shared preferences are needed > 3. Switch back the preferences saving option to "Personal"/"Local" > 4. Exit XXE > > Just reading a preference file from XXE distribution upon startup (no > need give end-users any control on this file's name) before applying the > current loading scheme would then be sufficient to obtain the desired > effect. > > Anyway, this is just a suggestion there might be others, more > sophisticated, mechanisms but this simple one would completely suit us. > > Many thanks for your excellent support. > Best regards, > Philippe. >
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