kconfig and kde global config files

[David Faure]

On Saturday 04 March 2006 05:08, Matt Rogers wrote:
> On Friday 03 March 2006 21:44, John Tapsell wrote:
> > Couldn't kconfig just watch the kdeglobals files for changes and reread
> > then?
> >
> 
> no, because KConfig is in kdecore and wouldn't be able to depend on KIO for 
> the file watching, unless there was a proxy class somewhere that 
> automatically reparses it on change.

That's exactly the kind of problems which the planned reorganization will solve.
KDirWatch doesn't depend on anything else in kio, so it could be moved up
the hierarchy, into at least the same level as KConfig. Well it uses KConfig for
two settings; interesting inter-dependency ;) But should work nonetheless.

-- 
David Faure, faure at kde.org, sponsored by Trolltech to work on KDE,
Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org), and KOffice (http://www.koffice.org).