Hi,

There was a discussion a while back about applications wanting the ability to store their own
IO-related settings that is currently handled by KProtocolManager for every application that
uses it.  This is an idea/proposal that is intended to allow for that without breaking BC.

My idea is to create two distinct new singleton classes KROProtocolManager and KRWProtocolManager
KRWProtocolManager would inherit from KROProtocolManager and with the additional ability to specify
your own config file, ex: setConfigObject(const KConfig* ).  KProtocolManager then can create one instance
of KRWProtocolManager to allow manipulation of the global settings.

I see two advantages with doing this. The first is the obvious reason that app developers needed
to keep or manipulate their own settings without having to dup the code in kprotocolmanager.   The 
second reason is that these settings would be of the same value so sharing such settings between
applications as necessary would be a trivial task.  It would also allow application that want to only
read the global information to obtain an instance of KROProtocolManager and do not worry about
the rest of the baggage...

Comments, opinions, ideas ?

Regards,
Dawit A.