config option for KDirWatch method

Thiago Macieira thiago at kde.org
Mon Aug 6 20:55:26 BST 2007


Matthew Woehlke wrote:
>Right, but I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that you get the
>system-wide settings unless the app has overridden them (which I would
>further suggest is The Right Thing To Do anyway). At least, I really
>hope that's the way it works, or else all of KGlobalSettings is horribly
>broken :-).
>
>Then again, having someone confirm that is best I suppose.

Can you give us one reason why an application would choose to override the 
system settings?

In which case will the application have more information for a better 
choice? And why shouldn't this apply to the entire system?

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