The next version of my program, UMENU, will operate just that way.
Nothing but files and directories. I was originally thinking of using
Yaml, which I like a lot, but decided there might be situations where
requiring a Yaml parser would be prohibitive. And I'm betting that
because of the way I'm building it, pulling up any menu of any depth
will be lightning quick. The original UMENU required "compiling" of an
EMDL (Easy Menu Definition File) into .mdl (Menu Definition Language)
files, in order to achieve speed compatible with a touch typist.

The current menu is a wonderful program with horrible deployment
problems, so that less than 100 people worldwide use it.

SteveT

Steve Litt
Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting
http://www.troubleshooters.com/28





On Sun, 5 Apr 2015 19:52:32 -0400
Jude Nelson <judecn@???> wrote:

> If I ever write a desktop suite, it will store settings as a
> well-defined directory tree with human-meaningful file names and
> contents instead of a MySQL database or a large flat opaque file.
>
> That's just me, though.
>
> Jude
>
> On Sun, Apr 5, 2015 at 7:37 PM, T.J. Duchene <t.j.duchene@???>
> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI [mailto:renaud@olgiati-in-paraguay.org]
> > > Sent: Saturday, April 4, 2015 5:34 PM
> > > To: dng@???
> > > Subject: Re: [Dng] Too many man pages, too much complicated :
> > > systemd
> > >
> > > On Sun, 05 Apr 2015 00:11:55 +0200
> > > toto titi <voidtothetenth@???> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Nearly as complex as a Microsoft operating system, look at
> > > > that : http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/
> > >
> > > Please, Sir, could we have a registry ?
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > >
> > > Ron.
> > > --
> > [T.J. ] You already do have a registry.
> >
> > It's called "gconf" and has been part of Gnome for the last
> > decade. KDE uses a MySQL database for many settings as well, so
> > Gnome is not the only culprit.
> >
> > The basic idea of a database/registry is not a bad one. It is
> > actually very
> > efficient for miscellaneous settings, or programming new features
> > rapidly, but the flip-side is that flat files are easier to fix if
> > something goes south. The idea of a registry gets a bad rap
> > because of the poor way that Microsoft implemented theirs with UUID
> > codes that are hard to decipher, and the fact that Microsoft never
> > provided a tool to clean up the database to prevent software rot.
> > Fortunately, the Linux equivalents are user account based rather
> > than system wide and can easily be cloned, modified, or if
> > necessary dumped.
> >
> > T.J.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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