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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: KConfig vs. QSettings (was Re: Porting problems with
From:       David Faure <faure () kde ! org>
Date:       2007-03-01 22:19:14
Message-ID: 200703012319.15233.faure () kde ! org
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On Thursday 01 March 2007, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> On a side note: Why does KConfig not use QSettings (at least under the
> hood)? If there's some docs that explain the reasons please point me to
> them, I'm just curious...

KDE file layout, merging files from multiple levels (not just 2 like QSettings - see \
KDEDIRS, KStandardDirs etc.), and from kdeglobals, support for reverting to default \
from above level, file/group/entry immutability, need I continue? ;)

-- 
David Faure, faure@kde.org, sponsored by Trolltech to work on KDE,
Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org), and KOffice (http://www.koffice.org).


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