[RFC] KConfig API stuff - amended proposal

[Thomas Braxton]

On 10/22/07, Oswald Buddenhagen <ossi at kde.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 08:18:20PM +0200, Kevin Krammer wrote:
> > On Monday 22 October 2007, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> > > 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?
> >
> no, because as stated a few lines above, we our .desktop files have both
> xdg and kde style lists in one file.


Then I would say the .desktop files are broken. If it is named .desktop it
should follow the spec and only have XDG-style lists, otherwise other
XDG-capable programs won't be able to read them correctly.
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