>File > Preferences
>File > Options
>Edit > Preferences
>View > Options
>Tools > Options
>Preferences > Settings
What's the standard way?
>>51976431
bump
>>51976431
What you have described can each be unique operations
>>51976431
I always saw options as something that turn features on/off while preferences modify existing features.
Same shit at the end of the day
>>51976431
>~/.myprogram
>~/.myprogram.conf
>~/.myprogram/conf
>~/.config/myprogram
>~/.config/myprogram.conf
>~/.config/myprogram/conf
What's the standard way?
>>51976512
You forgot
>myprogram.cnf
>>51976551
~/.config/myprogram/conf is my prefered, but really atm its a clusterfuck
>>51976551
>What's the standard way?
~/.config/myprogram/conf
Usually preferences are simply aesthetic changes and settings are actual feature settings
How's it hanging in heaven, Hitler?
Tools > Options
Edit > Preferences
Everything else is trash tier. View should be dedicated to enabling on screen displays and window management. There should not be a dedicated preferences menu, that should be a tab inside of the options pane. File should have the majority of its abilities taken up by file operations like saving, closing, opening and exporting.
>>51976551
there will never be one
>>51976551
>~/.myprogramrc
The problem is the number of standards.
~/.config/myprogram/configrc
best way
>>51977406
>Tools > Options generally windows
>Edit > Preferences generally gtk
>>51977456
Wow. I never noticed that.
>>51977443
Is it kill?
>>Program Name -> Preferences
>>51978000
delete this
>>51978000
The shortcut's pretty good too
>>51978000
>eating shit with bare hands
>>51978000
>posting your email address
>>51976431
>Help > About Excel 2003 > Search for "Office Plugins" in the about Screen > Options
Office 2003 master race
>>51976431
>File > Preferences
UI
>File > Options
Everything else
>Edit > Preferences
Preferences of editing content
>View > Options
Options about what UI features or shown/hidden
>Tools > Options
Extras, not commonly used, plugins
>Preferences > Settings
Preferences shouldn't be a top level thing in the UI.
>>51978199
Haxors in anonymozzze sekret darknet website 4chan will hack him, right?
>>51978000
This is one of the few things Mac has over Linux: a standardized preferences/options shortcut.
>>51978239
>This is one of the few things a PC brand has over a Kernel
>>51977698
Doesn't look like it is
>>51977456
>>Tools > Options generally windows
This
>>51978267
kek
>>51978232
Expect us
>>51978267
le funneh meme face :^)
>>51978346
>posts his IP
>>51978420
see this>>51978232
>>51978420
Well it's always Christmas and sharing is caring
>>51976431
>What's the standard way?$ vi ~/.apprc # only config file
$ vi ~/.app/config # other files beside config
$ vi ~/.config/app/config # XDG standard
if you don't use the .config directory, you are everything that's wrong with the world.
>>51976431
Just wanted to drop by and say the directory structure fragmentation that happens in linux distros really gets on my nerves.
>>51978480
Only Gnome fucks it up.
>>51978456
>vi
>app
you like is up the butt, senpai?
>>51978513
> five different /lib/ dirs
> three different /bin/ dirs
JUST FOLLOW THE UNIX SPEC DEVS REEEE
>>51978480
There's the FHS, which every distro follows except the shitty ones.
Then there's user configs, which is impossible to get standardization for millions of independent devs unless you play dictator like Apple.
It's only a problem if you're autistic though, just hide dotfiles during normal use.
>>51978513
everybody fucks it up
>>51978299
>>51978346
Wow, check out the internet tough guys here.
>>51976431
Upper hamburger menu -> Cog/gear wheel
>>51978456
>.config/app/config # XDG standard
Why
>>51978654
>hamburger menu
fucking americans.
>>51978767
What do you mean why? That's the XDG standard, which doesn't mean a lot in the UNIX world, but it's more prevalent in the personal desktop Linux space because GUI apps.
>>51978629
It's not "fucking it up". UNIX didn't have any standards for user apps because user apps are literally all third party.
The old "de facto" standard is .<name>rc if your program only has a config file and .<name> folder if your program uses more than one file. But again, there's no standard, for the same reason different countries don't have the same standard language.
>>51977406
2nd choice makes more sense IMO as in Edit the Preferences, putting it under Tools makes no sense to me
