Re: Preferences caching?
Re: Preferences caching?
- Subject: Re: Preferences caching?
- From: Lee Ann Rucker <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2013 13:20:03 -0800
On Nov 27, 2013, at 11:53 AM, Graham Cox wrote:
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> On 27 Nov 2013, at 8:42 pm, Kyle Sluder <email@hidden> wrote:
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>> If you think "deleting a plist in ~/Library/Preferences" is a solution
>> to any problem to which "run `defaults delete`" is not, I think you're
>> concerned about a very narrow definition of "average user".
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> Well, I’m more concerned about the “below average” user then. Like it or not we can’t choose our users, and many fall into the category where using a GUI to locate and drag a file to the trash is infinitely preferable to opening terminal and typing commands that have to be letter-perfect. That may be second-nature to us, and so we forget just how afraid of this some users can be.
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If they're that naive a user, they can't navigate the GUI to get to the prefs - ~/Library has been hidden by default for years now.
> Thankfully, this is extremely rare, and in many cases I’m afraid “trashing the prefs” is akin to voodoo as a solution for a problem, but it’s often put out there (not by us if we really don’t think it will help I hasten to add).
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> Adding a button it is, I agree it’s better all round.
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> So let me turn this into a dev question then. Do I need to actually run a command line task to do this, or is there some API I can use? For example, what does + resetStandardUserDefaults achieve? Anything useful in this case?
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> —Graham
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