runpreferences & kconfig question

[Andreas Pakulat]

On 07.12.08 17:33:43, Vladimir Prus wrote:
> On Sunday 07 December 2008 17:25:09 Aleix Pol wrote:
> > On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 2:33 PM, Vladimir Prus <ghost at cs.msu.su> wrote:
> > 
> > >
> > > Aleix,
> > >
> > > I am looking at
> > >
> > >        kdevplatform/shell/settings/runpreferences/runconfig.h
> > >
> > > and it seems like that file is the output from kconfig_compiler,
> > > which is then further edited manually.
> > >
> > > 1. Am I right that the only point of manual editing is to
> > > add a second constructor, that takes 'groupPrefix', and futher
> > > does this:
> > >
> > >        setCurrentGroup( groupPrefix+QLatin1String( "-Run Options" ) );
> > >
> > > ?
> > 
> > Yes, kconfig_compiler classes doesn't let me change the prefix, that's why i
> > created runconfig.h/cpp
> > 
> > >
> > >
> > > 2. I don't see runconfig.kcfg anywhere -- did you commit it?
> > 
> > There is no kcfg because it is not being used.
> 
> How can we then add a new option, should such need arise in future?

Extend the class. Obviously there's no framework in place right now to have
plugins extend the configuration. If we need that in 1.0/4.0 then somebody
has to implement that.
 
> > > 3. Did you have any specific plan how to clean this up? I'm thinking
> > > that we can create LaunchConfigSkeleton class, derived from
> > > ProjectConfigSkeleton and specify that inside runconfig.kcfg. Any reason
> > > that would not work?
> > 
> > Feel free to create this skeleton, but well, now it is working i think so
> > maybe you want to put work on smth else
> 
> I expect a bunch of custom UI pages to be created for debugger configuration
> in future, so better solution that editing output of kconfig_compiler is
> desired.

I'm not sure we need this as kcm at all, it should be fine to have a
KPageDialog with a way to provide the pages somehow via a plugin.

Andreas

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