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 didn't realize that we seemed rabid about it. We don't use
the registry to store configuration data mainly for historical
reasons. LS originally is based on AfterStep and the step.rc
and its format are based on AfterStep's .steprc file.
However, we won't be switching to the registry because it
can't do things that the step.rc does now such as includes
or conditional processing (If/Else). If we'd started with the
registry from the beginning then those might not be a problem,
but now that we have them its hard to give them up. Then of
course there is the issue of moving configuration data as is
done in themes. Registry data cannot be moved directly and
so it has to be exported and then reimported which is a
somewhat clumsy process. We could have LS do the export
and import itself but in that case we're doing just as much
work as if we'd stuck with the step.rc to begin with.
Then of course there is the fact that the registry being a part
of the OS is beyond your control. For example, I can't load
some geoShell .reg files directly because they were created
with the 2K version of regedit which produces Unicode files
that my version of regedit (WinME) won't import.
