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The README file should contain how to build the project, run the GUI and run the command line tools. They should document command line arguments, system properties used, and basic known troubleshooting.

In keeping with #1 & #2, moving a node involves a remove action which isn't 100% reliable to take place in the GUI. Better to remove that than have it be there for confusion.

This will remove current drag and drop functionality as well. That's a shame, I like drag and drop but not at the expense of unreliability.

Per #1, this issue will remove the Remove Preferences node functionality from the GUI.

Allow for changing the key name or value. Edits must be able to be made by clicking in the table cell, making the change with the keyboard, and pressing enter. Edits must be made permanent after pressing enter.

Refresh functionality should rebuild the preferences tree by re-reading preferences in the backing store. Refresh functionality should be made visible in the menu bar under a View option and in a context menu when the user right-clicks in the tree view.

When a preference node is deleted from the GUI, all indications show that the node is gone. But when the GUI is exited and started again, the node reappears.

Command line utility to list the child nodes of a given node. Execution should follow the same pattern as other command line tools.

Command line utility to list the keys and values of a given node. Execution should follow the same pattern as other command line tools.

The system properties you can set for the command line tools all involve the class name for the property name. This is hard to type on the command line and discourages their use. The names will still be a little long, but removing the class names will make it easier to use them.