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From: | Dennis Leeuw |
Subject: | Re: SystemPreferences |
Date: | Sat, 25 Feb 2006 17:18:51 +0100 |
User-agent: | Debian Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20051002) |
Chris Vetter wrote:
On 2006-02-24 11:07:47 +0100 Dennis Leeuw <address@hidden> wrote:Hi Chris,Would this also mean the we need a /System/Library/Inspectors /System/Library/Finder /System/Library/TextConverters /System/Library/GSPrinting just no name a view others that are falling in the same category. Or am I somehow missing the point here?I don't know ;-) As I said, this was just a thought, and *I* could probably be mistaken.The way I see it is that Bundles are part of an application, that could possibly be used by other applications as well. For example, think of a web browser that has a generic history manager in a bundle. An FTP client could re-use said bundle for it's download history. (Stupid example, but you get the idea).
Actually it explains what might be a generic Bundle and thus belongs to the domain System/Library/Bundles...
OTOH, a preference pane of SystemPreferences is different, IMPOV. Sure, it is implemented as a bundle, but its only purpose is to provide a "service" in/to SystemPreferences and no other application _should_ use it (of course they could, but I do not see a point in doing so).
Where as this does not. It should be part of SystemPreferences/Resources/.../Bundles (where .../ is whatever is decided on to be the path to the "internal" Bundles dir (currently I think it is Resources/Library/Bundles... I can't check 'cause I am installing from scratch)
So, the only reason for storing preference panes NOT in .../Bundles/ is to distinguish between a 'real' bundle and a pref-pane. IMHO, this would make the Library directory look a bit 'cleaner.'
I agree with you on the cleaner part. Just not sure where the panels should end up.
Question to the OSX users -- how/where does OSX store pref panes? Maybe we could/should just mimick their setup.
Yeah... let's hear it boys and girls. How does our big brother solved this issue? ;)
Dennis -- "It is not necessary to change. After all, survival is not mandatory." Dr. W. Edwards Deming
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