KConfigGroup (Re: KDE/kdelibs/khtml)

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On February 11, 2007, Stephan Kulow wrote:
> On that topic: why do we still need the read only argument? Shouldn't
> KConfig know pretty well if it was changed?

the only utility i can see in it is that it prevents a call to sync() if the 
programmer sets the config to read only. a similar effect can be achieved if 
one simply doesn't set any values in the config; though there is one odd 
effect i see looking at the code: it seems you can temporarily set values in 
a config object without having them written out to disk by making the 
KConfigBase derived-object readOnly and then setting values. not sure what 
the use case is there ...

unless someone can actually come up with such a use case, i also don't 
particularly see the need for read only at this point.

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Aaron J. Seigo
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