A Qt replacement for KGlobal::ref and deref

[Stefan Majewsky]

On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 5:31 PM, Aaron J. Seigo <aseigo at kde.org> wrote:
> which begs the question: "is KConfig (as ane exmple) platform or app dev"? fun
> conversations to be had and digging to be done :)

>From my experience, KConfig is actually two things at once:

1. framework for reading and writing INI-like files
2. utility for locating and merging user-specific plus system-wide configuration

Only part 2 is platform. Part 1 is already a great thing in itself
even if applied to single files. Usages of KConfig for the purpose of
defining custom, human-readable file formats include (here in
kdegames) KGameTheme description files, Palapeli puzzle metadata,
Palapeli collections, Kolf courses, etc.pp. Part 2 is "just" a bonus
for application configuration files, just like KConfigXT which is not
useful for custom file formats.

So a possible idea could be to refactor the KConfig class into two
classes, one for stand-alone config files and one for application
configuration in KStandardDirs' "config" prefix. The latter class
would then move into the KDE platform thingy, while the other one does
not have any KStandardDirs dependency. (Dunno about other low-level
dependencies, though.)

Greetings
Stefan