On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 04:00:13PM +0200, Ulf Lamping wrote:
> 1. Edit/Preferences...
I would be very unhappy if, every time I changed the protocol
preferences, they overwrote the preferences in my preferences file, for
the reasons I mentioned earlier.
Perhaps the correct answer here would be to have, at least for the
protocool preferences, *separate menu items* for editing your "default"
preferences and for editing the current *settings* of those items; "OK"
for the former would save them, "OK" for the latter would *NOT* save
them.
> 5. Edit/Protocols... is currently not saved at all.
That's because nobody's contributed code to save them.
> Disadvantage: This would make it impossible to have two filters with
> the same name (but I think, this is not really a problem).
It would also mean that some filter names wouldn't be possible, e.g.
filters with "/" in their names, as that's an illegal file name
character in UNIX, as it's a pathname separator, and, as I remember,
Windows makes it illegal as well even though "\" is the pathname
separator.
That *might* be a problem if users already have filters with those
names.
> If we want to do it that way, we should put all the display filter
> files in a subdirectory maybe called "displayfilters" as this could be a
> lot of files and this would keep a better overview.
If we put each filter in a file, I'd definitely say we should put them
in subdirectories.
