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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: Direction of KDE default?
From:       "Aaron J. Seigo" <aseigo () olympusproject ! org>
Date:       2002-07-27 8:40:28
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On Saturday 27 July 2002 08:34, Irwin K wrote:
> How would we evaluate the files?  We would likely need another program for
> that.

yes, but it wouldn't be hard to write.

iterrate through all the files in $KDEHOME/share/config/, opening each one 
with KConfig. for each group read in each config entry and  create a text 
file with a bunch of sql statements that can be fed into a database. email 
that text file off to the project. 

the program would have a blacklist of files/entries to ignore (e.g. all 
"username" or "password" entries, or kmail's filters, or ...). the blacklist 
would be fiarly easy to come up with as we could run the program w/out the 
blacklist on our own configs and determine what we wouldn't want made public 
=)

the database would have one record for each config entry in each file. each 
record would record the file name (e.g. konquerorrc), the config group, the 
config option and the value it was set to.

with this all in a database one could then run interactive queries. popping it 
behind a set of php web pages one could even open it up to developers to 
query the results they are interested in (e.g. the settings for the apps they 
maintain)

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Aaron J. Seigo
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"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler"
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