Windows registry utils in kdesupport/win32

[Jarosław Staniek]

Ralf Habacker said the following, On 2008-03-27 09:20:
> Jarosław Staniek schrieb:
>> Ralf Habacker said the following, On 2008-03-26 20:51:
>>   
>>> Jarosław Staniek schrieb:
>>>     
>>>> Hi,
>>>> Forgot to say that before but contents of kdecore/kernel/kernel_win.cpp is my 
>>>> code, which was originally in kdelibs/win/win32_utils2.cpp (KDE3).
>>>> But more important is what I propose - move it to kdesupport because we'll be 
>>>> accessing more and more windows registry in the future.
>>>>   
>>>>       
>>> read access only or write access too ? The latter has to be reconsidered 
>>> very well
>>>     
>> could you please explain?
>>
>>   
> setting absolutes pathes of kde installations in registry will make it 
> hard to place kde installations on an usb stick or removal disc because 
> the drive letter may change.
> Because of this kdecore and dbus contains code to determine the related 
> install path on runtime. We discussed this a short time before with 
> Frank Osterfeld.

No, no - I do not mean writing these paths, but accessing the keys in general 
(probably will be rarely used anyway). It's available in QSettings.

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