KConfigGroup automatic sync

[Andreas Pakulat]

On 18.02.09 17:11:48, Stephan Kulow wrote:
> Am Mittwoch 18 Februar 2009 schrieb Sebastian Trüg:
> > The techbase article on KConfig states that the KConfigGroup destructor
> > will sync automatically:
> >
> > "We can also simply wait for the object to be destroyed, which triggers an
> > automatic sync() if necessary."
> >
> > This is not the case. Question is: what is the preferred behaviour? Should
> > it sync automatically or not? In the latter case, one would have to call
> > sync whenever one uses a group for writing which is very annoying.
> 
> syncing is a very expensive operation and KConfigGroup an often created 
> object, so definitely: change the article. KConfigBase destructors should sync 
> though, no idea if they do atm.

~KConfig syncs if its dirty, ~KConfigBase doesn't.

Andreas
 
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