[PATCH] ui: add new config flag for interface selection

[Laurent Charignon]

> On Feb 10, 2016, at 5:34 AM, Pierre-Yves David <pierre-yves.david at ens-lyon.org> wrote:
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> On 02/04/2016 06:28 PM, Laurent Charignon wrote:
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>> From the problem that Pierre-Yves mentioned, we have resolved 2 issues out of 3:
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>> 1) In what section to put this code.
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>> => RESOLVED: We are going to stick to what I sent in the patch, i.e. ui.interface.XYZ
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> Keep in mind that the main entry point should be 'ui.interface' and that hopefully most user will never touch anything else (well actually not touch it all)
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>> 2) What should the config value be
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>> =>NOT RESOLVED: Augie thinks that we won't have a second curses interface and wants to simplify the option choice accordingly.
>> Pierre-Yves disagrees and prefers to keep a more complex but more flexible option.
>> I am personally fine with any choice, but I prefer Pierre-Yves' idea as it is more extensible, let's be optimistic, we could have another curses interface one day!
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> My opinion here is that we should have a hierarchical option value.
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> - "curse" is a valide option value and mean "the best curse available",
> - "crecord" is a valid option value and mean "the interface we imported from crecord",
> - "blackpearl" will be a valid option value and mean "another immortal curse UI".
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> This give us the following tree:
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> - "curse"
>  - "crecord"
>  - "blackpearl"
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> That said, we do not need this tree structure until we actually get more UI. So here my proposal:
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> - We call the option "curse",
> - If we get another option we implement the tree structure,
> - We make it somewhat clean that script should not rely on this "curse" value for backward compatibility (but, we are talking about a curse UI here)
> - If the Point above seem to sloppy to other people we introduce both "curse" and "crecord" and make it clear that "crecord" only ensure backward compatibility.

Ok I am good with that! I will send a V4.

Thanks,

Laurent

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