Re: GNUstep Weekly Editorial 26-10-2001

[Martin Brecher]

[...] 
> The  features of  Preferences.app are  not fixed,  it  loads dynamicly
> modules   from  (/NextApps/Preferences.app,  /NextLibrary/Preferences,
> /LocalLibrary/Preferences). [...]


GNUstep's Preferences.app should also be based on modules/bundles. As it is 
done with the entire GNUstep system - modularization leads to flexibility and 
less dependencies.

This way it might also be useful if GNUstep applications could have their 
preferences set using Preferences.app (app's preferences panel loaded as 
bundle). 

Also wappers for non-gnustep apps should be possible to launch the 
corresponding configuration programs (Window Maker's WPrefs, KDE Control 
Center, SuSE's YaST & YaST2 etc).

Also, what I like about Mac OS X's new Preferences is that it can be organized 
in categories. By the huge amount of settings you can change on a system this 
is very very useful and user friendly. Then we could even have extra categories 
for different operating systems/distributions.

What do you think?


Greetings,
Martin