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Re: [OT] Plist editor?
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Re: [OT] Plist editor?


  • Subject: Re: [OT] Plist editor?
  • From: "M. Uli Kusterer" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 02:46:17 +0100

At 18:37 Uhr +1000 22.01.2005, Abhi Beckert wrote:
So rather
than:

<key>CFBundleExecutable</key>
<string>Internet Connect</string>
<key>CFBundleGetInfoString</key>
<string>1.4</string>
<key>CFBundleIconFile</key>
<string>NetworkConnect.icns</string>
<key>CFBundleIdentifier</key>
<string>com.apple.internetconnect</string>

you'd have:

CFBundleExecutable: Internet Connect
CFBundleGetInfoString: 1.4
CFBundleIconFile: NetworkConnect.icns
CFBundleIdentifier: com.apple.internetconnect

You do know you can use one of Apple's command-line tools to generate NeXT-style ASCII plists that look pretty close to this? I really don't see a need for reinventing the wheel, especially as OS X still supports reading and writing those.


Oh, and as to someone else's comments that plist editor got in the way: Yes, but that's the fault of the current implementation. The general concept would work just fine, and is actually an improvement over using TextEdit or so. You could support copy & paste just as well in plistEditor, just as you could fix its annoying habit of moving entries away under your mouse after a rename etc.

It's just a matter of spending some time on polish, which the bugs when working with AppleScript terminology files etc. show Apple didn't do. Which is okay. There are more important apps than that in Apple's stable.
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M. Uli Kusterer
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