Merging settings by group in KConfig

[David Faure]

On Monday 03 April 2006 20:27, Matt Rogers wrote:
> config->setGroup( "Chatwindow:FooContact", "Chatwindow" );
setGroup is deprecated in favour of using KConfigGroup; setGroup 
is too dangerous since it changes the state of KConfig.

> //read an entry. if no entry for the key exists in the real group
> //read the entry from the default group, and if no entry exists there
> //use the specified default.
> config->readEntry("OverriddenKey", "Default"); //returns "NotDefault"

I'm wondering if this shouldn't be done why this can't be done by an extra layer 
above KConfigGroup...  Something like
KConfigGroupWithDefault myGroup( "Chatwindow:FooContact", "Chatwindow" );
myGroup.readEntry("OverriddenKey", "Default");
Should be easy to implement, e.g. with two KConfigGroups as member,
or by deriving from KConfigGroup and adding fallback-lookup.

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