KConfig vs. QSettings (was Re: Porting problems with KMainWindow::readProperties())

[Harri Porten]

On Thu, 1 Mar 2007, Andreas Pakulat wrote:

> On a side note: Why does KConfig not use QSettings (at least under the
> hood)? If there's some docs that explain the reasons please point me to
> them, I'm just curious...

One reason would be the lack of file format compatibility between major 
releases of Qt. Users won't like to lose their settings when updating 
their software.

Harri.