kconfig question

[Boudewijn Rempt]

On Sun, 17 Jan 2016, Matthew Dawson wrote:

> It appears this is the desired behaviour.  On most platforms,
> GenericConfigLocation and ConfigLocation are the same things, except Windows.
> According to Qt's history, ConfigLocation was supposed to act like
> GenericConfigLocation, but a mistake was made and GenericConfigLocation was
> introduced to fix that without breaking existing applications.  See commit
> 44d48862c0ff4b67a76734deae5e76f926a77bce .
>
> KConfig was then changed to use GenericConfigLocation as well, see commit
> b3487a0684fa464ada0cd3407e96d0406345a42a in kdelibs (this happened before the
> split).  On all platforms except Windows, that is how KConfig has all behaved.
> Even in KDE4, config files were often put in the same directory, just not a
> standard directory shared by the platform.
>
> Based on the commit history, I'd say it makes sense.  Anything else would
> yield platform inconsistent behaviour, which is more likely to confuse people.
> If ConfigLocation wasn't inconsistent across platforms, that would be a
> different story.

Hm, but I don't think that having kritarc in a directory called "local" on
every platform is important: the important thing is to have it in the location
that's "normal" on those platforms.

> Regardless, changing the default behaviour now is a no go, as that would break
> everyone's setup.  However, I wouldn't be opposed to a method to allow KConfig
> to easily store config files in an application appropriate folder.  It
> couldn't break existing applications though.  I also don't think most things
> should need it anyways, since most applications only have one config file.
> Something like akonadi (which already uses a subfolder in my .config) makes
> sense, and I could see it making sense for Krita.  Maybe some way to use
> AppConfigLocation?  We'd have to be careful with that though, since it's
> >=5.5.

I'm fine with 5.5 as a minimum for my own purposes :-). I just don't want to have
to change a couple of hundred locations to explicitly pass AppConfigLocation.

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Boudewijn Rempt | http://www.krita.org, http://www.valdyas.org