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Looks good but needs a little improvement 
- Version: 2.1, 6/2/2005 02:02PM PST
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John Sawyer
PreferenceCommander displays the raw text of an application's preferences file(s). While this can be useful for fine-tuning prefs, there should be an option to also display prefs in a more user-editable form, as Apple's "Property List Editor" does, or the utility "Defaulter". Most of the raw text of a preferences file is stuff most users don't need to see, and which can be confusing and increase the chances that the user might edit something incorrectly. Property List Editor and Defaulter's approach of showing the Value string, number, etc. for each preference, in a series of popdown entries, is safer and clearer for most people.
The first time I downloaded and ran PreferenceCommander, it spent about a minute collecting the names of the applications on the several drives connected to my Mac, but during this scan, nothing appeared onscreen, which at first led me to believe it had hung. When it was done, it displayed a list of my applications. The readme file makes mention of this delay, but there should be some kind of window or message onscreen telling the user what's going on.
After the application scan was done, this perplexing message was displayed, even though this was the first time I'd run PreferenceCommander: "You exceeded the allowed 0 simultaneous users. You can enter a new license, run in demo mode, or quit." It worked properly after this, after I selected demo mode, but I think it would be less intimidating to some users if this alert were re-worded.
The specific name of the preference file isn't displayed until you select Save, nor its path--both should be displayed when you click on an application's name, just as the application's path is shown at the bottom of the PreferenceCommander window when you click on an app's name.