On Nov 27, 2013, at 11:53 AM, Graham Cox wrote: > > On 27 Nov 2013, at 8:42 pm, Kyle Sluder <k...@ksluder.com> wrote: > >> If you think "deleting a plist in ~/Library/Preferences" is a solution >> to any problem to which "run `defaults delete`" is not, I think you're >> concerned about a very narrow definition of "average user". > > > Well, I’m more concerned about the “below average” user then. Like it or not > we can’t choose our users, and many fall into the category where using a GUI > to locate and drag a file to the trash is infinitely preferable to opening > terminal and typing commands that have to be letter-perfect. That may be > second-nature to us, and so we forget just how afraid of this some users can > be. >
If they're that naive a user, they can't navigate the GUI to get to the prefs - ~/Library has been hidden by default for years now. > Thankfully, this is extremely rare, and in many cases I’m afraid “trashing > the prefs” is akin to voodoo as a solution for a problem, but it’s often put > out there (not by us if we really don’t think it will help I hasten to add). > > Adding a button it is, I agree it’s better all round. > > So let me turn this into a dev question then. Do I need to actually run a > command line task to do this, or is there some API I can use? For example, > what does + resetStandardUserDefaults achieve? Anything useful in this case? > > —Graham _______________________________________________ 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
