QSfera/settings/docs/glossary.md

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title: "Glossary" date: 2020-05-04T12:35:00+01:00 weight: 80 geekdocRepo: https://github.com/owncloud/ocis-settings geekdocEditPath: edit/master/docs

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In the context of this extension and oCIS in general, we are using the following terminology.

Configuration

• System configuration
• e.g. service host names and ports
• Changes need to be propagated to other services
• Typically modified on the CLI

Settings

• Application level settings
• e.g. default language
• Can be modified at runtime without restarting the service
• Typically modified in the UI

Preferences

• User settings
• Subset of "Settings"
• e.g. preferred language of a user

Settings Bundle

• Collection of related settings
• Registered by an ocis extension

Settings Value

• Manifestation of a setting for a specific user
• E.g. used for customization (at runtime) in ocis-web
• ocis-web-settings extension for modifying settings values is provided by this service
• Can be queried and modified by other ocis extensions