Moving KPrefs from libkdepim to kdelibs

[Benjamin Meyer]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

On Tuesday 22 July 2003 7:57 am, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> On Tuesday 22 July 2003 00:41, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> > On Monday 21 July 2003 17:10, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> > > 2) It should honour immutability of config keys. KMail's KMIdentity
> > > class is a good example of a settings wrapper that effectively
> > > ignores KIOSK restrictions. The KIOSK restrictions work good in
> > > situations where one code part writes changes to a config file and
> > > the other part reads those  changes in in order to use them. This way
> > > the the code that uses the settings always uses settings that have
> > > been subjected to the KIOSK restrictions. In KMIdentity this breaks
> > > because the changes are written to the internal data structures
> > > themselves and used from their again. The KIOSK restrictions only
> > > kick in after you exit and restart KMail. That's not what the
> > > sysadmin ordered :-}
> >
> > Did you notice this problem this very minute or why did I never see a
> > note nor a patch for this on kmail at kde.org or bugs.kde.org? The next
> > time please send us a short note instead of pointing with the finger at
> > us. You are the KIOSK expert. You can't expect that everyone always
> > does it the KIOSK way. But if you don't tell us then we can't learn
> > from our errors.
>
> Please don't see this as finger pointing. I mentioned KMail because I got a
> SuSE bug-report about it the other week. I don't expect the KMail
> developers to be aware of such problems or to fix them. I just used it as
> an example of how this particular programming-pattern leads to problems for
> KIOSK.
>
> KPrefs should be able to address those problems and KMidentity would be a
> good candidate to be ported over to a KPref based approach which would then
> solve the issue. All in due time.

As pointed out in my previus post KAutoConfig can fix that problem now with a 
reduction in code not more.

- -Benjamin Meyer

- -- 
Public Key: http://www.csh.rit.edu/~benjamin/public_key.asc
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux)
Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org

iD8DBQE/HSqh1rZ3LTw38vIRAsKlAJ4sl5C9VtxI4xsJdoZ7ihQswzDerQCfUfzI
I5gdBlQofvHaOrgx2Ou3Aac=
=4MaP
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----