Porting problems with KMainWindow::readProperties()

[Tobias Koenig]

On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 08:35:05PM +0100, David Faure wrote:
> On Saturday 24 February 2007, Tobias Koenig wrote:
Hi David,

> > So to port the following code:
> > 
> >   void FooBarMainWindow::readProperties( KConfig *config )
> >   {
> >     const KConfigGroup group = config->group( "view" );
> >     value = group.readValue("bar");
> >   }
> > 
> > we shall write now
> > 
> >   void FooBarMainWindow::readProperties( const KConfigGroup &config )
> >   {
> >     const KConfigGroup group = config.config()->group( "view" );
> >     value = group.readValue("bar");
> >   }
> 
> No, value = config.readValue("bar"). And fix saveProperties to do the same.
But it seems that some apps need the possibility to have namespaces
_inside_ a group. At the moment they use the toplevel groups as namespaces, so
how shall we map them to the new design?

I'd really like to see KConfig offering the same hierarchical structure
(groups in groups) that QSettings offers. We have so many broken code
that fakes it by having a 'NumGroups=x' entry with '[Group_1]' '[Group_2]' groups.

That's really something the framework should offer!

Ciao,
Tobias
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