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Re: XWin design suggestion
- From: Biju <bijumaillist at yahoo dot com>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sun, 4 May 2003 19:41:18 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: Re: XWin design suggestion
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
--- Harold L Hunt II <huntharo@msu.edu> wrote:
> Sam,
>
> Sam Edge wrote:
> > Harold L Hunt II <huntharo@msu.edu> wrote in
> > <3EB5B5D2.4060909@msu.edu>
> > in gmane.os.cygwin.xfree on Sun, 04 May 2003 20:52:34 -0400:
> >
> >
> >>Yes, I have already thought of that one... and actually started some
> >>work on it awhile ago. In fact, my near-term plans for XWin.exe are to
> >>add a couple registry settings to remember the position of the Exit
> >>confirmation dialog box. If that goes well, it will only be a matter of
> >>time until more settings are registry enabled.
I also thought of the issue with the confirmation dialog box.
My current solution,
in my windows control panel I changed mouse setting to snap to default button.
Alternate is to show the dialog box near the SysTray or near current mouse position.
> > At first reading I was of the opinion that stuff like this should be
> > in POSIX-ish configuration files of one sort or another - a
> > ".something" file or directory under each user's $HOME with default
> > values under /etc - not in the registry under
> > "HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/<Organization>/<Application>" and
> > "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/ditto."
> >
> > On the other hand, I imagine that many people use XWin.exe as a sort
> > of container application, with everything Cygwin/remote-X-client
> > "inside" the X session/window(s) and everything Windows-y outside, so
> > things like the confirmation dialog box are in some sense "outside"
> > the POSIX realm.
> >
> > Oh heck. Indecision. Must be the hour of the day and the red wine. ;-D
> >
>
> I have spent a bit of time thinking of the different options here as
> well. In the end I think that this is a Windows application, not a *NIX
> application, so it should follow Windows conventions not *NIX
> conventions. That's the way that I will code it... of course, patches
> that implement functionality to read a .config file would probably be
> applied, but I don't think I will be writing that code anytime soon :)
>
> Harold
>
Using .config file in users $HOME dir we can reduce dependency (so called vendor locking effect)
on MS-Win and also it will be like other *nix program.
Saving settings in a file will also make it easy for copying if there is lot of users and/or PC
cheers
Biju
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