KConfig nested groups

Andreas Pakulat apaku at gmx.de
Sun Jun 24 22:08:34 BST 2007


On 24.06.07 12:18:48, Keith (n/a) wrote:
> Dear KDE developers, I am asking for the KDE team to consider
> implementing nested groups in kconfig before the release of KDE4. I am
> in the process of developing a point and click game IDE called
> kollagame. The game is going to allow users to add and remove various
> objects to the IDE to be used when developing a level. The state of
> these objects need to be preserved between use of the program.
> Currently KConfig allows groups but not nested groups and since my
> game is going to have N number of tiles, spells, weapons, etc, I am in
> great need of nested groups from kconfig. If this feature is
> unavailable, I am either going to have to abuse kconfig and manualy
> create nested groups or save the settings to a xml file. Remember
> spells, weapons, tiles all have a set of properties that need to be
> stored in their respected groups. 
> 
>     A while back Paolo Capriotti submitted a patch for KConfig to
>     allow for nested groups, I have re-attached this patch. 

I'd like to add that nobody objected the patch, otoh nobody told Paulo
that he could commit and unfortunately he didn't ask again.

Andreas

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