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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: KConfig again
From:       Sirtaj Singh Kang <ssk () physics ! unimelb ! edu ! au>
Date:       1999-05-17 6:13:59
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On Mon, 17 May 1999, Mosfet wrote:
[snip]
> 
> And also how KConfig is used. As I mentioned before, almost all apps read in
> the KConfig items they want in their constructors and put them in local data
> structures. They do not call readEntry a bunch of times throughout the
> program. 

Well, this is not necessarily a good thing. The Config entries should be
used for the loading and saving of preferences whenever a new toplevel
widget is created, destroyed or its preferences edited. This is the
easiest way (ie least code) that I have found so far of allowing
Ok/Apply/Cancel that works - the preference dialog changes the KConfig
settings and the toplevels read their config again. I am against slowing
this down significantly to save a few K; I'd agree if I was shown that the
memory saving was large. 

-Taj.

Sirtaj S. Kang       taj@kde.org         ssk@physics.unimelb.edu.au
Univ of Melbourne	
			"I'm a commercial operating system."
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