On Nov 24, 2007 12:52 AM, Harald Hanche-Olsen <email@hidden>
wrote:
It has long been an irritant to me that there seems to be no
systematic way to discover what one can do with the defaults command
for most applications. I learn them a bit here, a bit there, from
various online fora. Is it supposed to be that way, or have I missed
some important source of such information? Of course one can learn a
bit from defaults read, but I believe that most options that aren't
set from the app's preferences window won't even be present in the
.plist file until you put them there youself, so it doesn't help
much.
You can always run "strings" on the binary and look for likely
suspects. (I'm only half joking...)
I agree, it would be nice if there was some way to query an app for
these things, but it's just one of those things that's never going to
be a priority for engineers at Apple. But hey, I'm just happy they're
there at all. Where would we be without them? The land of
translucent menu bars and reflective docks, that's where! ;^)
