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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: RFC: KConfig changes for 3.0
From:       Charles Samuels <charles () kde ! org>
Date:       2001-07-25 17:59:44
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On Wednesday 25 July 2001 10:28 am, David Faure wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 07:40:18AM -0700, Charles Samuels wrote:
> > In addition to Rob's comments, we should eliminate the obvious lack of OO
> > safety in KConfig and always explicitly set a group when accessing a key.
> >
> > My personal favorite way is a group(QString) function that returns a
> > temporary KConfigGroup.
> >
> > In other words
> >
> > config->group("Some Group Name")->readEntry("Some Key");
>
> This is an excellent, excellent idea.
> And with a KConfigGroup * you could cache the value of config->group("Some
> Group Name") in case you're reading multiple keys from it.
> And it's not hard to keep source compat, with the readEntry and setGroup
> still available in KConfigBase.
> And it's not hard to implement either :)
>
> Yes yes yes, this gets a 100000% vote from me :)

So, is that a yes, or a no?

Answers like "This is an excellent, excellent idea" and  "yes yes yes, this 
gets a 100000% vote from me" are a bit ambiguous, n'est pas?

-Charles

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