Re: NSSystemDefaults?

[Chad Hardin]

Right, I understand I can do this by putting out my own plist (or 
whatever) into the appropriate directory.  I was just wondering why 
there was no more standard way of doing it along with the 
NSUserDefaults.

A better way to explain it would be to imagine that NSUserDefaults had 
an extra Domain, on top of everything, which the Global and Application 
Domains could override.

Of course, *writing* to the defaults in this domain would be 
problematic, since they are inter-user, but at least the benefits of 
reading them would still be there.

Anyhow, I was curious if anyone knew why NSUserDefaults, well, stopped 
at being just for one singular user and not for all users on a system 
(From a historical perspective, I mean)

Chad


On Jun 3, 2004, at 6:59 PM, Rogelio Serrano wrote:

> On 2004-06-04 12:49:06 +0800 Chad Hardin <cehardin@mac.com> wrote:
>
> > While working on GSCUPS, I realized that having the ability to save 
> > global system defaults in fashion similar to how NSUserDefaults works 
> > for each user would be very handy.
> > For example, let's say the administrator of a system wants all the 
> > users to use a certain printer by default?
> > I'm wondering why such a thing was never done on NS or OS, OS X does 
> > not do it either (the Cocoa Docs say to use CoreFoundation for this 
> > type of functionality).
> > Any thoughts on this?
> > Chad
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> Hi,
>
> From what i understand its supposed to go into Library/Preferences/ in 
> the appropriate fs domain. For all preferences that affects the users 
> of the localhost it should be in {LOCAL_ROOT_DIR}/Library/Preferences.
> In my system its in /Library/Preferences/Default/
>
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