On 9/23/05 5:07 AM, Jay Vaughan didst favor us with:
>> Who is suggesting that? Just have an option in the preference window
>> of your application to specify a config file. And you can still pipe
>> all your preferences into your command line argument handler.
>>
>
> what preferences window? why should prefs be changeable during
> runtime? what if you don't want prefs to be dynamic at any point
> other than startup time?
I wouldn't recommend a prefs window for this, but to answer your latest "I
don't understand Mac OS X" question, it's not uncommon for applications to
have preferences that only take effect when the application is launched.
They usually tell the user something like "Changes will take effect the next
time X is launched."
>
>>> ermm.. which Mac users are you talking about, the ones buying Mac
>>> apps, or the ones who have moved to OSX from Unix and still want to
>>> run the Unix apps they expect to be able to run, smoothly, just
>>> like the good ol' (irix) days?
>>
>> You seem to be contradicting yourself here. You won't use a terminal
>> command because it is too difficult and yet you say you're targeting
>> people moving from Unix to OS X.
>
> why is it you associate "Unix" with "command line user"? i think
> this is quite a bit braindead. Unix is not the command line. Unix
> does GUI too, yo.
There may be Unix GUI applications, but I've never known anyone who
considers himself a Unix user who didn't have an intimate personal
relationship with Terminal. ;-)
Larry
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