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List:       kde-commits
Subject:    Re: kdebase/kcontrol/kio/uasproviders
From:       David Faure <david () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2001-03-26 1:37:43
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On Monday 26 March 2001 02:23, Dawit Alemayehu wrote:
> On Sunday 25 March 2001 08:41, you wrote:
> >  Am Sonntag, 25. März 2001 12:46 schrieben Sie:
> >  >  	Makefile.am Makefile.in ie401onwinnt4.desktop
> >  >  	ie501onwinnt5.desktop ie50onppc.desktop ie50onwin95.desktop
> >  >  	ie55onwin98.desktop ie55onwinnt5.desktop lynxoncurrent.desktop
> >  >  	mozm18oncurrent.desktop mozm18onwinnt4.desktop
> >  >  	nn301oncurrent.desktop nn475oncurrent.desktop
> >  >  	nn475onwin95.desktop nn476onppc.desktop op403onwinnt4.desktop
> >  >  	w3moncurrent.desktop wgetoncurrent.desktop
> >
> >  huh, one .desktop file for every useragent??? Why that?
> 
> Yes because this information is not a name-value pair for which kconfig 
> is well suited.  Each user-agent info has at least three required
> paramters( full string,  UA name and UA version ) and IMHO doing this
> using kconfig is frankly a PITA.  

Well if that's the only reason, that's what groups are for in KConfig.
There are methods to retrieve the list of groups in a given config file.

> Furthermore, sharing/changing these
> description files is a much easier when you use separate files than
> a single one that contains everything IMHO...

The real-world usefulness of this is still to be proven :)

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David FAURE, david@mandrakesoft.com, faure@kde.org
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