KConfig nested groups

[Dmitry Suzdalev]

Hi, Keith.

On Sunday 24 June 2007 23:18, 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.

Maybe offtopic, but have you considered using libconfig [1] for complex 
configs? Just discovered it, seems like a nice one (not used it though, so no 
comments from this side)

Cheers,
Dmitry.

1. http://www.hyperrealm.com/libconfig/libconfig.html