[RFC] KConfig API stuff - amended proposal

[Kevin Krammer]

On Monday 22 October 2007, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> given the massive resistance against a "proper" refactoring, here is a
> reduced proposal.
> these changes have practically zero potential to break anything, so i
> don't accept any "we are in release mode" type objections.
> as stated previously, i'd do all the porting myself.
>
> absolutely necessary given the prospect of adding new backends is the
> removal of the separator argument from the read/writeEntry methods that
> deal with lists.
> given the somewhat sicko mix of xdg lists and kde lists in some of our
> .desktop files, the two methods read/writeXdgListEntry will be added.
> it's clear that those functions will simply refuse to work with other
> backends.

Wouldn't "XDG-style INI" just be another backend?
Especially since it probably has its own environment variables and default 
paths to deal with.

Cheers,
Kevin

-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring
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