From kde-core-devel  Wed Jul 25 18:07:00 2001
From: David Faure <david () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 18:07:00 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: RFC: KConfig changes for 3.0
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=99608454120358

On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 10:59:44AM -0700, Charles Samuels wrote:
> 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?

A yes ! There are 3 yes in the line above and you need one more ? :)

> 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?

I thought I couldn't be more explicit !
I even pointed out many good things about this idea.

Damn, this will teach me for being enthousiast about something.
I'm all happy and you read irony in my words ? :{

So... where's the patch ? :)

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