KConfigGroup and entryMap

[Mauricio Piacentini]

Apparently there was a recent change in behavior for 
KConfigGroup->entryMap(). This broke translation of theme files for 
games, you can see it in KMines for example. What happens in short is 
the in kgametheme.cpp we had something like:

     KConfigGroup group = themeconfig.group(d->themeGroup);
     d->themeproperties = group.entryMap();

And the returned entryMap would have the entries in the default, non 
localized format. If we do:

     KConfigGroup group = themeconfig.group(d->themeGroup);
     kDebug(11000) << "Name map is" << group.readEntry("Name");

Then Name is returned in the correct, localized format.

So the question is: how do we deal with this? One obvious solution now 
is to maybe loop through all the keys in the returned entryMap (or use 
KConfigGroup->keyList(), which is also untranslated right now), and 
extract and store the localized versions for the values. HOWEVER, this 
might break again in the future, if entryMap() or keyList() is changed 
to return localized data. It is a matter of how the API is supposed to 
work. To the KConfig guys:

In the case above, what is the correct behavior? Should entryMap or 
keyList return translated data, or not? Can we rely on this for the future?

I am not sure at which point the behavior of KConfig was changed, but 
right now my main concern is to define the behavior of the API, instead 
of coding a workaround in libkdegames that might break again in the future.

Regards,
Mauricio Piacentini