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

[David Faure]

On Thursday 01 March 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...

KDE file layout, merging files from multiple levels (not just 2 like QSettings - see KDEDIRS, KStandardDirs etc.),
and from kdeglobals, support for reverting to default from above level, file/group/entry immutability, need I continue? ;)

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