[patch] KPluginInfo's use of KConfig

[Matthias Kretz]

On Wednesday 20 June 2007, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> On 20.06.07 10:57:11, Matthias Kretz wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > while looking into KSettings::Dialog and friends in libkutils I stumbled
> > over KPluginInfo's use of KConfig in it's API. Now that KConfigGroup has
> > grown up I'd like to use KConfigGroup exclusively in the KPluginInfo API.
> >
> > Also, since KConfigGroup is a value based class now (it was explicitly
> > shared already) I'd like to add a default ctor + isValid() function so
> > that those can be used like a null pointer or that it can be used with
> > QList and such at all. While at it I replaced the d-pointer with a
> > QExplicitlySharedDataPointer so that copying and deleting the object is
> > safe from any thread.
>
> Do I understand correctly that I can then create a KConfigGroup and use
> that in multiple threads simultanously? That would be awesome because it
> would solve our config-access-problem in KDevelop :)

Sadly not. With this change you're then allowed to copy KConfigGroup objects 
and let them go out of scope without protecting that with a mutex. Everything 
else still is handled by the non-threadsafe KConfig objects. :(

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