You know ...this is a great opportunity for me to ask ... (and please
don't take this as offensive, because I'm just wondering about the
possibility that there are good reasons that I simply don't understand)
why are you LS'ers so rabid about not using the resigtry?
I think there are a few reasons which sometimes work together separately.
Since LS was originally designed for people familiar with Linux, it made
sense to use text config files for everything.
There is a school of thought that says an individual litestep installation
should be completely self contained and portable, which would expressly
forbid using a machine-dependent registry. Possibly this grew out of the
time when themes were distributed as full installs but I wouldn't really
know...I came on as this practice was dying off.
It is probably easier to help people if the settings are stored in text
files instead of the registry. There's nothing other than Litestep stuff
to wade thru in the LS text configuration files. Also it's easier to send
these files to others and open and close them. Especially if you download a
new theme and want to make sure it isn't going to change you system colors
before you run it ;) Now if LS did go to XML you would want a viewer, so
this point wouldn't be valid anymore.
Finally, many users are just plain unfamiliar with the registry.
I guess it wouldn't be a problem to store one variable in the registry,
depending on what it is. Especially if there's no concievable need for the
user to access it directly.
These are just my thoughts; they may be wrong.
prion
