kconfig sync at exit

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Wednesday 20 June 2007, Thomas Zander wrote:
> On Wednesday 20 June 2007 21:04:53 Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > On Wednesday 20 June 2007, Thomas Zander wrote:
> > > I was surprised to see that I had to manually call 'config->sync()'
> > > afterwards since none of my changes (not even the new group) appeared
> > > in the config due to the app quitting shortly after.
> >
> > this is a regression somewhere... KConfig::~KConfig() does indeed call
> > sync(), but that relies on the config being marked dirty. so somewhere
> > ... that's not happening.
> >
> > are you using kconfiggroup or directly callin kconfig{base} methods?
>
>     KSharedConfigPtr config = KGlobal::config();
>     KConfigGroup interface = config->group( "Interface" );
>     interface.writeEntry( "Zoom", m_zoom );
>     config->sync();  // do we need this line?
>
> I'm not aware of any other way to do it ;)

hm.. i just test this here locally with a small test app and it works as 
expected without a call to sync() ... perhaps ossi is right and your app is 
chrashing on exit?

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