KConfigDialogManager support for QButtonGroup does not work

[Adeodato Simó]

Hello,

I'm finishing porting my application to KDE4, and I was getting trouble
getting KConfigDialog + KConfigSkeleton to play nice with my QButtonGroup
(it would work just fine in KDE3).

I started reading kconfigdialogmanager.cpp, and it looked to me that
QButtonGroup is supported: it is defined in s_changedMap, and special
cased in several places.

I asked Pino Toscano to take a look as well, and he immediately
discovered that support for QButtonGroup is simply broken:

  <pinotree> QButtonGroup *bg = qobject_cast<QButtonGroup *>(w);
  <pinotree> w is a QWidget*, but QButtonGroup inherit QObject,
             so that qobject_cast won't ever success

He suggested I mailed here to bring up this issue. My application now
uses KButtonGroup (which works like a charm), so as far as I'm concerned
QButtonGroup support could get fixed, or dropped with a note in the
documentation that a KButtonGroup should be used instead.

Cheers,

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