kdelibs/kdecore

[Zack Rusin]

On Tuesday 23 September 2003 05:19, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> Indeed, thanks for the detailed report. It should be fixed now.
>
> When debugging I discovered that KMail uses two KConfig objects that
> both operate on kmailrc. It would be more efficient if you could
> manage to share a single configuration object. I assume that Kmail
> uses two because one is used for the part and one is used for the
> shell? 

If it has two then that's a bug. The only KConfig object that should 
operate on kmailrc is KMKernel::config() and that's the one it should 
always be used. 
The problem that has been bothering me though is that one of the most 
irritating things about kpartifying and app is that all the 
KGlobal::config() constructs become invalid because part uses a 
different config name then the app (which is also the reason 
KMKernel::config() was added - to make sure the same config is used all 
over the place). 

> Maybe KConfig should provide a factory for refcounted config 
> objects for such cases?

Yeah, that's a good idea. In KMail the problem must be somewhere else, 
but that would help nontheless.

Zack

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