config stuff

[Sandy Meier]

On Tue, 12 Sep 2000 you wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Falk Brettschneider wrote:
> Now I remember what was really ugly: KConfig is too primitive
> for a component-based application. If you give each components
> its own group, then all the component can store is key/value
> pairs - KConfig doesn't have nested groups. A workaround is
> to use multiple groups (the doc tree view is an example), but
> then the whole structure gets lost and the file becomes a
> glorious mess (btw the stuff stored by KDockMainWindow::writeConfig()
> is already an obvious example of such a mess)
> 
> Can't we use XML+QDom for project files? :-)
> Then one could replace the setupGUI() to components with the pair
> 
> void saveConfig(QDomElement element)
> void restoreConfig(QDomElement element)

I have taken a look at QDom and XML and will try to port the class ProjectSpace
and class Project to this "technology" next week.

Ciao!
Sandy

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