AmiDock and application.library in AmigaOS 4

[zee4]

@Valan,

I still think a modern variation of the WB1.3 would be a great place to start.

Yes! I'd love to see someone do a re-interpretation of the 1.2-1.3 interface. If OS4 is as skinable as the screen-shots indicate, this shouldn't be a problem for someone to do.

Zoltan

[zee4]

"a system-wide xml based configuration system would be dog-slow compared to text or binary-based configuration systems."

Explain that, please. The prefs are read when the application starts, and written when the application wants to save it (which is quite rare).

@Rogue,

Good point. I could see the advantages off a binary-based preference system in 1985, but I think the advantage of having a human-readable prefs file trumps the (tiny) performance hit from parsing an XML file.

Zoltan