Review Request 110865: KConfig: fix long-standing bug where translations would not be loaded.

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This review has been submitted with commit 9ac662e6d03003759ad58532f0dd5548e2fa068d by David Faure to branch KDE/4.10.

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On June 7, 2013, 1:28 p.m., David Faure wrote:
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> (Updated June 7, 2013, 1:28 p.m.)
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> Review request for kdelibs and Oswald Buddenhagen.
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> Description
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> KConfig: fix long-standing bug where translations would not be loaded.
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> This happened in the following situation:
> * KDEDIRS with two prefixes (let's call them global and middle)
> * a kconfig file with the same name in both (e.g. a .desktop file)
> * same value for Name[locale]= in both
> * no override in the local directory (KDEHOME)
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> The Name= value in the "middle" desktop file would delete the
> currently-loaded translated name, but didn't do so fully (it failed
> to delete the one with bDefault==true, due to the line
> "k.bDefault = false" a few lines before, which wasn't meant to
> affect this). So when reading the Name[locale] in the "middle"
> desktop file afterwards, it said "ok I already have it, do nothing",
> and the english name prevailed.
> The complexity comes from the fact that in such a setup, every key
> is present twice, once with bDefault=false and once with bDefault=true.
> (and then double that, for localized and non-localized).
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> After making bDefault=false operate on a copy of the key, a bug was
> uncovered in the if (bDefault) block that was never executed before:
> it should remove the key with bDefault==true, since it already did
> that for bDefault==false (the 4th argument of the KEntryKey ctor).
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> Anyway, there's a unittest, so even if nobody ever understands my
> ramblings above, at least it won't regress again.
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> Diffs
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>   kdecore/config/kconfigdata.cpp 8f837fb8eec896c1ceb245bc6854cdfba55cce4b 
>   kdecore/tests/kconfigtest.h 3b01c66fd49cda833044dfcb5f2b51c24da7f18b 
>   kdecore/tests/kconfigtest.cpp e5d2e80da0685615a0028ccd7254487664ffc6b0 
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> Diff: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/110865/diff/
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> Testing
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> Added unittests, ensured existing ones pass.
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> Also tested the real-world setup which triggered this bug in the first place (copies of kcmodules in an overlay directory defined in /etc/kde4rc), and translations not appearing in systemsettings when doing that.
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> Thanks,
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> David Faure
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