installing kcfg xml files

[Nicolas Fella]

On 7/30/25 4:35 PM, Nicolas Fella wrote:
> On 7/30/25 4:19 PM, Sune Vuorela wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> Due to <reasons> I was looking at why we install kcfg files.
>> They seem to have two different usages in the sources:
>>
>> They can be KConfigLoader'ed at runtime or they can be kconfig_compiler'ed
>> to c++ code at build time. Or sometimes both.
>>
>> I don't know if I have missed something, but do we have utilities that
>> work with other projects kcfg files where it would be an advantage to
>> have the kcfg files around for the code generated c++ files ?
>
> To the best of my knowledge, not right now. I have a prototype for a 
> config editor that would use these on my disk, but I don't know yet 
> whether I will actually turn this into a real thing.
>
https://invent.kde.org/nicolasfella/configeditor if you're curious. Not 
more than a PoC though, and would need more work to be generally useful.

>> Do we gain anything from installing a settings.kcfg file for a component
>> that is using it for code generating at build time, or are we just
>> confusing our future selves by having them also installed?
>>
>> /Sune