RFC: KConfig XT (KDE 3.2)

[Simon Hausmann]

On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 08:12:22PM +1100, Daniel Stone wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 09:54:09AM +0100, Frerich Raabe scrawled:
> > On Sunday 16 March 2003 09:36, Daniel Stone wrote:
> > > Dudes, having a registry is *bad*. You know, we already have KConfEdit -
> > > KWrite, vim, KVim, whatever.
> > >
> > > I like the "defaults in one place" thing. The registry idea I don't
> > > like, and IMHO that entire path is wrong, bad, evil, fucked-up and bad.
> > 
> > Now that we all know what you don't like, could you perhaps put down the crack 
> > pipe?
> 
> A single, unified "registry" is never the right way to go. Just because
> Windows and ye olde other desktope environmente do it, doesn't mean we
> should do it as well. It's ... it's not the right idea. What we have
> works, and works well.

Where exactly do you see an attempt of unifying data, of
centralizing it to one 'registry' file, of preventing you from
continuing to edit your config file by hand?

Simon