On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 8:31 AM, Milian Wolff <milian.wo...@kdab.com> wrote:
> On Friday 10 October 2014 13:21:22 Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 11:26:52AM +0200, Milian Wolff wrote: > > > On Friday 10 October 2014 11:18:38 Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > > > > On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 11:07:52AM +0200, Milian Wolff wrote: > > > > > may I ask why you don't simply copy KConfig? It's API design has > > > > > proven to be extremely versatile and efficient over the years. > > > > > > > > actually, it has proven horrible and is slated for a rewrite for a > > > > decade. the only thing it does right is what tomaz copied to his api. > > > > > > To my knowledge, only the internals are horrible and could easily be > > > improved, speed wise. > > > > the api is also horrible. it's full of inconsistencies. it has some > > specifics that make a clean multi-backend implementation not fully > > feasible. the c'tor flags for cascading and other features are rather > > error-prone. also, the duality of KConfig vs. KSharedConfig makes no > > sense. > > There are some dark corners in the API - that is correct. But you usually > don't have to care about that. The API that one uses normally is pretty > good > and definitely better than having to manually use references or such. > That's > what I have in mind when I talk about the good API of KConfig :) > > > on a different matter, what do we do about config change notifications? > > i tend to a separate class, say: > > > > QConfigWatcher::QConfigWatcher(const QConfigGroup &group); > > Q_SIGNAL changed(const QString &key); > > > > then we can postpone the actual design and implementation. > > Yeah, I like that idea, similar to what one can do via > KSettings::Dispatcher, > just nicer. > I tougth about having a changed() signal on the QConfig / QConfigGroup classes, is the QConfigWatcher a better approach? > > Bye > -- > Qt Developer Days 2014 - October 6 - 8 at BCC, Berlin > > Milian Wolff | milian.wo...@kdab.com | Software Engineer > KDAB (Deutschland) GmbH&Co KG, a KDAB Group company > Tel. Germany +49-30-521325470, Sweden (HQ) +46-563-540090 > KDAB - Qt Experts - Platform-independent software solutions > > _______________________________________________ > Development mailing list > Development@qt-project.org > http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development >
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