[Kde-pim] configuration in akonadi-next

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Thursday, December 18, 2014 22.58:43 Sandro Knauß wrote:
> +1. I love every file i can simply look into and do not have to use special
> tool to look at it. Also for bugreporters this matters: you can easily drop
> the content of a textfile and actually are sure that no passwords are
> transmited. Using a db you have to access the database, create a dbdump to
> have a readable thing.

... which can be automated with a tool that can also use the functionality of 
a datastore to pull together relevant information even if it is scattered 
across different sets of data in storage.

which text file, exactly, do i drop into a bug report for a problem with 
accessing kolab from korganizer?

how many users know that?

what is the difference between "include file X from location 
${long/path/in/your/home/dir}" and "run ${COMMAND} and attach the results"?

text files do not absolve a project from providing useful tools for users to 
submit bug reports, and when things get as complex in terms of configuration 
as kontact does, it's negligent to suggest that users are well served by text 
files scattered in various hidden places.

even with text files, it would be much, much better to have a tool for a user 
to collect all the relevant information together without having to have any 
specific knowledge (such as which text file(s)) and which provides a perfectly 
complete report for the developer.

and if you have that sort of tooling, what's the difference between a tool 
that does that with text files and one that does it with a binary store?

> But configuration should not be that heavy that any binary thing is needed

performance is indeed entirely uninteresting in the topic of configuration.

i'd give my front teeth for a kconfig that had modern features like change 
notification, for instance, and would happily give up text files for that.

-- 
Aaron J. Seigo
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