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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: annoying bug still around.....
From:       Dawit Alemayehu <adawit () kde ! org>
Date:       2000-05-27 16:24:36
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On Sat, 27 May 2000, Bernd Gehrmann wrote:
> On Fri, 26 May 2000, Stefan Taferner wrote:
> > KConfig is perfectly suited for what KMail needs. Having to open an
> > extra config object just for deleting a group is somewhat, hmm, strange.
> > 
> > There is still use for the remove methods. E.g. if you want to remove the
> > user settings in some areas to reactivate the global settings.
> 
> What is also lacking KConfig is a method to read global settings.
> In a configuration dialog, I usually want to offer a button
> "Defaults" which resets all values in the dialog to the global
> defaults. Some applications work around this by setting hard-
> coded defaults. As a consequence, if a Linux distributor or
> system administrator wants to install a customized version of
> an application, he has to patch the source code instead of
> just modifying a configuration file. IMO this sucks. 

Am I mis-understading you or isn't KGlobal::config() there for this purpose ??
Perhaps you meant something else by "global settings"....

Regards,
Dawit A.

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