[Patch] KMainWindow::saveMainWindowSettings not saving toolbar in subgroups of the given group

[Oswald Buddenhagen]

On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 01:18:21AM +0200, Eduardo Robles Elvira wrote:
> It might break some user settings from kde 4.0 and I'm sorry for that
> =), but that doesn't mean it's not a bug.
> If I give a KConfigGroup to saveMainWindowSettings, it's because I
> want to store the settings in the group.
>
indeed.

the apidoc also clearly backs up eduardo's standpoint.

> Maybe in kde3 it was meant to work like this.. but then if groups
> didn't exist then this function would take a non existant config group
> as an argument. When the function' signature was changed to take a
> config group as a parameter, then the expected behaviour of the
> function changed. I.e. if I wanted to store them in a config file, I
> would give it a config file =).
> 
yes. this api change was unfortunately done without much attention in a
big "make kconfiggroup more popular in the api" effort.

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