From kde-devel  Wed Aug 13 07:07:43 2003
From: George Staikos <staikos () kde ! org>
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 07:07:43 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: Gconf2
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=106075871304121

On Wednesday 13 August 2003 02:58, Michael Pyne wrote:
> On Wednesday 13 August 2003 02:44, David Findlay wrote:
> > Are there any plans in the future for KDE to use Gconf2 or something
> > similiar for configuration info? Are there any compelling reasons why not
> > to? Thanks,
>
> I'm not a KDE developer (yet, heheheh :) ), but I very highly doubt it. 
> First of all, unless I'm mistaken, there is already something similar to
> GConf2, which is the KConfig module.  It doesn't support tree-based
> structures, but that is rather easy to emulate anyways, either by switching
> groups or using different value strings (e.g. Colors-bgColor,
> Colors-fgColor, etc.).

  Or using a QDataStream.  I have been doing that for years in order to store 
arbitrary data structures in KConfig.  I store ASN.1 encoded data in KConfig 
even.

> In conclusion, the short answers to your questions are No and Yes.

  Definitely.

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George Staikos
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