Re: Package Proposal: Preference_Manager

On Sat, 14 Dec 2002, Martin Jansen wrote: > On Fri Dec 13, 2002 at 10:3425AM +0100, Stig S. Bakken wrote: > > On Sun, 2002-12-08 at 22:30, Martin Jansen wrote: > > > On Sat Dec 07, 2002 at 09:0645PM +0000, Jon Wood wrote: > > > > Jon Wood wrote: > > > > >>>I'd like to propose a new package, and I'm looking for the > > > > >>>right > > > > >>>name to > > > > >>>give it, it's a small class for managing user preferences in an > > > > >>>application, with basic session based caching of the values, and the > > > > >>>ability to get default values if the user wants it to. > > > > > > +1 on this. > > > > > > > How about Authentication/PrefManager? > > > > > > Sounds ok for me. > > > > Uhm, what do preferences have to with authentication? > > That was my first thought also. But actually you need to authenticate > the user in some way to load the preferences for him. Sure, but does that relation need to be reflected in the preference handling package? The way I see this, authentication is just a way of establishing identity, but a preferences package would be useful for managing per-package or per-application settings well as per-user settings. Binding the name to "auth" kinda limits the scope to users only. - Stig