Gnome Article on UI Design on /.

[Waldo Bastian]

On Tuesday 23 April 2002 03:13 am, Alexander Kellett wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 08:43:43PM -0400, Nick Papadonis wrote:
> >   - There are simply TOO many configurable options in the control
> > center.  Time to take the MS Windows approach, leave the most common
> > preferences here and place other in a registry (or config file).
>
> Which reminds me. I'd agree here but for one thing, windows has a
> nice gui regedit program. How about adding one to KDE but going one
> step better? - by adding comments to all the configure options.

You would need to start with making an e.g XML-based description of all 
configuration options used by a program. Once you have that and once you have 
a way of making sure that this file keeps in sync with he actual program we 
continue talking.

Cheers,
Waldo