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Subject: Preferences (was  Re: Icon sizes, Workbench hand (was Re: My )))
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Date: 17 Aug 89 01:05:01 GMT
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Reply-To: porkka@frith.UUCP (Joe Porkka)
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>In article <16334@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> johnhlee@cory.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Vince Lee) writes:
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>The cleanest solution I can think of is this:
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>2) Include two new preference items:  Shrink_icons and Expand_icons.  If an

Even better: Provide a way to extend preferences.
	
	The current preferences would be split up into four (serial,
	printer,pointer,main prefs) seperate programs. Running "Prefs"
	would get you the main prefs screen. From there you would
	be able to get to any of the other prefs programs, and
	vise-versa. The would have to be some mechanism to tell
	the prefs system about other prefs control programs.

	This would allow people other than CBM to supply prefs style
	programs to customize their software, and it would fit
	in nicely with current way prefs works.
	Kindof like Suns defaults edit, except that you
	would need to supply a program to edit the prefs, rather
	than a convert-to-defaultsedit-style-and-back again programs.

	Is there any hope that CBM will supply documentation in 
	an online type format?? It would be VERY nice ya know.
REAL NAME: Joe Porkka   jap@frith.cl.msu.edu