KConfig: Expandable flag of config entries is not persistent

[Ingo Klöcker]

On Monday 08 October 2007, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> On Monday 08 October 2007, Nhuh Put wrote:
> > > Von: Ingo Klöcker
> > > Gesendet: Sonntag, 7. Oktober 2007 22:41
> > > An: kde-core-devel at kde.org
> > > Betreff: KConfig: Expandable flag of config entries is not
> > > persistent
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > KConfigGroup seems to have a serious problem with the persistence
> > > of the flags of config entries. In the particular case I have
> > > encountered the expandable flag ($e) of a path entry is lost if
> > > the config is rewritten without explicitly rewritting the path
> > > entry with writePathEntry(). This should be a very common use
> > > case because it occurs whenever an application writes a path
> > > entry only if it has changed (e.g. KMail writes the location of
> > > the mail storage usually only a single time and thenceforth only
> > > reads the entry).
> > >
> > > The attached patch for kconfigtest demonstrates the problem.
> > > After adding another config entry and synching the config the
> > > expandable flag of the path entry is gone so that the second read
> > > test of the path fails because readPathEntry() returns the
> > > unexpanded value $HOME/foo:
> > >
> > > FAIL!  : KConfigTest::testPath() Compared values are not the same
> > >    Actual (sc3.readPathEntry( "homepath", QString() )): $HOME/foo
> > >    Expected (HOMEPATH): /home/ingo/foo
> > >    Loc:
> > > [/home/ingo/svn/kde/trunk/KDE/kdelibs/kdecore/tests/kconfigtest.c
> > >pp (277)]
> >
> > This should now also be fixed, at least the testcase doesn't fail
> > anymore.
>
> I'm sorry, but it is not fixed. I have now committed my testcase.

Bah! I forgot to run 'make install' (after/instead of 'make'). My 
testcase does pass now. Sorry for the confusion and thanks for fixing 
the problem.


Regards,
Ingo
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