Re: FYI and a few questions...

[Adam Fedor]

On Jul 27, 2007, at 9:36 AM, Fred Kiefer wrote:

> Stefan Bidigaray wrote:
>
> > 4) Lastly, I'll need a lot of help creating ScreenSaverDefaults, but
> > only later.  I've check NSUserDefaults' code and I'm more confused  
> > now
> > than I was when I started out.  I figured for this, the best thing  
> > would
> > be to create a new file (ScreenSaverDefaults) under the Defaults
> > directory.  NSUserDefaults, however, seems to be very picky about  
> > there
> > being a process running and writing to that process.
>
> You should just not worry about your settings being in a separate file
> or not. GNUstep currently stores all defaults in one file, which btw I
> do not like. All you need to do is to get and set your values from/in
> [NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults] and things should work as  
> expected.

I think the concern here was sharing defaults between a preferences  
application and the actual screen save tool (which might need to be  
some kind of daemon, or at least might need to be a daemon that  
handles starting the screen saver). I don't really have a good answer  
for how to do this. There could be several ways - writing your own  
defaults file might be one of them.

Also, there's the issue of system-wide defaults vs user-defaults,  
which NSUserDefaults doesn't handle currently (AFAIK), but that could  
be useful for a screensaver.