While I agree that sometimes deleting a prefs file is useful, its not really a good idea - never was. Its still asking the user to muck around app internals. The fact that mavericks now caches really shouldn’t matter.
I think if deleting your prefs file is a common case, or even somewhat common, or used at all - then yes, its far more appropriate for you to have a button. Asking the user to trawl through internal implementation details of the system was never a good idea. So in this case, I think Apple is doing the right thing. On Nov 27, 2013, at 12:27 PM, Graham Cox <graham....@bigpond.com> wrote: > > On 27 Nov 2013, at 8:18 pm, David Duncan <david.dun...@apple.com> wrote: > >> The preferences file has always been considered an implementation detail. >> I'm not up on all the reasons for the change, but you should be able to use >> the 'defaults' command line tool to do the same thing that trashing prefs >> used to do. Something like 'defaults delete com.yourcompany.yourapp' should >> do the trick. > > > Great. For me. For users in the field, the command line is the badlands, and > we can’t expect many users to be comfortable doing that. Trashing a file is > at least something they can understand, even if sometimes even that can be an > ordeal getting them to the ~/Library/Preferences folder, now it’s hidden by > default. > > Really, Apple are supposed to be the champions of the average user aren’t > they? Have they talked to any recently? Honestly, it would serve everyone > well if every developer served a month in a call centre. > > I guess we’re going to have to put a button somewhere that’s going to do this > for them. Sigh. > > ―Graham Alex Kac - President and Founder Web Information Solutions, Inc. "If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you." -- Francis Roberts _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
