Re: GNUstep Defaults and Preferences idea

[Alexander Malmberg]

Dennis Leeuw wrote:
> Just a wild idea that popped up in my head last night... :)
> 
> If we change the defaults settings to something XML-like like
> Renaissance (a description of the content and values in a XML-like
> structure, with possibly some markup information), then we don't need
> Preferences bundles but Preferences could directly render the settings
> from the defaults file...

No thanks. plists can do that just as well, and plists are, IMHO, better
in most ways. defaults already does what you say. It's a command line
tool, but an app could easily do the same thing.

In fact, a generic plist editor would be enough. I believe someone
started working on one, but I don't know how much progress was made.

- Alexander Malmberg