On Oct 10, 2014, at 11:48 AM, Morten Johan Sørvig <morten.sor...@digia.com> wrote:
>> >>> Mac people: do we need access to plist files? >> >> Plist is the format for application and other settings on OS X, and there >> are native tools for nicely editing these. Ini is highly alien on OS X. >> So, I’d answer yes. > > On the other hand, git uses the ini file format for the config files also on > OS X. git is a command line tool, and used by a very specific audience. > I see this as two separate use cases: > 1) Cross-platform API for managing application settings. We regularly have people which complain that Qt Creator application settings do not follow platform convention on OS X, because they do not find a qt creator plist in ~/Library/Preferences, or actually there is one that contains some settings coming from Qt (NSNavLastRootDirectory, PMPrintingExpandedState...., some WebKit stuff, and a few more), but not the actual application settings. > 2) API for reading native settings, following the conventions of the platform What kind of native settings are you thinking about here (on OS X)? > To what degree was QSettings successful in combining these? Focusing on > ini+json as supported formats will certainly simplify the implementation work. > > Morten > > _______________________________________________ > Development mailing list > Development@qt-project.org > http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development -- Eike Ziller, Senior Software Engineer - Digia, Qt Digia Germany GmbH, Rudower Chaussee 13, D-12489 Berlin Geschäftsführer: Mika Pälsi, Juha Varelius, Tuula Haataja Sitz der Gesellschaft: Berlin, Registergericht: Amtsgericht Charlottenburg, HRB 144331 B _______________________________________________ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
