> I think what could fit is to make KConfig not operate on actual files but
> instead talk to a simple dcop config server, which handles these things
> transparently (and which then can depend on stuff like kio) . I bet it
> could even be done in a binary compatible way (only changing KConfig
> internals) . But it sounds like quite a massive change, so it would
> need good testing (and probably some time to develop that daemon) .

> Oh, and...yet another daemon ;-)

Maybe slightly off-topic, but what about a kconfig backend to GConf, the
gnome config framework. This is already implemented as a daemon.

Dirk