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List:       freedesktop-xdg
Subject:    Re: Configuration API
From:       Waldo Bastian <bastian () kde ! org>
Date:       2004-04-29 20:42:18
Message-ID: 200404292242.18500.bastian () kde ! org
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On Thu April 29 2004 22:05, Claes Holmerson wrote:
> > At the storage level, KConfig considers all values utf-8 strings. When the
> > application asks for the value it specifies the desired type and only then
> > will the value be converted to that type. With KConfigXT we generate code
> > for the access methods so that we get type-safety from the compiler based
> > on the type specified in the meta-data. In both cases the backend has no
> > actual knowledge about the type.
>
> It might be a good idea to borrow some of the primitive data types that
> are defined in the XML Schema Spec (Part 2), and use them in the backend
> storage.

KDE has plenty of primitive data types already, it's just that the backend 
doesn't care about them.

In case someone is collecting requirements, we use:
String, StringList, Font, Rect, Size, Color, Point, Int, UInt, Bool,
Double, DateTime, Int64, UInt64, IntList, Enum, Path, Password

Cheers,
Waldo
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