From kde-core-devel  Thu Jul 26 12:13:42 2001
From: Harri Porten <porten () trolltech ! com>
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 12:13:42 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: RFC: KConfig changes for 3.0
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=99614969902971

On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, Marc Mutz wrote:

> On Wednesday 25 July 2001 19:28, 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.
> <snip>
> 
> I wonder if you have come across KConfigGroupSaver? ;-)

It's certainly known to all parties involved. But finding a way to achieve
the same functionality without the hassle of explictly instantiating an
extra object would be nice indeed.

Harri.