Re: [MiNT] Background

[Peter Slegg <p.slegg@scubadivers.co.uk>]

On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 09:48:57 , "Jo Even Skarstein" <joska@online.no> wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 09:12:52 +0200, Adam K?obukowski
>
> <adamklobukowski@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > W dniu 15.09.2011 09:09, Jo Even Skarstein pisze:
> >> 1. In xaaes.cnf
> >> 2. By copying certain files to certain folders (e.g. IMG-files with
> >> specific names in $sysdir\xaaes\img\).
> >> 3. At compilation time.
> >>
> >> We don't need another one. Also, when hotkeys is the only way to set
> >> desktop image it's impossible to include desktop images as a part of
> a
> >> theme. The desktop image should either be specified in xaaes.cnf or b
> y
> >> copying "desk.img" to the texture-folder.
> >
> > Actually, IMO, we need another one. Xaaes should expose functions to
>
> > change configuration on the fly. Then, we could write nice configurati
> on
>
> > program.
>
> Yes, that's true. There should be an API that allows a user program to
> change the settings in xaaes.cnf. The actual saving of xaaes.cnf would
> then be left to XaAES itself.
> However, it's not really necessary. It would be OK if XaAES was able to
>
> re-read xaaes.cnf while running.
>
> Jo Even
>
>
That was one of the goals of my generic tool application, gentool.
To be able to edit config files from GEM.

Regards,
Peter