On Sunday, 2013-04-07, Stephen Dowdy wrote: > Kevin Krammer wrote, On 04/07/2013 03:34 AM: > > A lot of application config are nowadays described by a meta config file, > > file extension being .kfcg > > ------------------^^^^^ > > > They are used to describe all possible values, their types and defaults > > and are used to generate config access code instead of manually writing > > it (manually written config access code is prone to typos in setting > > names). > > ------------------------------------------^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > Kevin, > > Heh, Irony Oops! You typo'd the file extension (.kfcg) should be > .kcfg (that sequence of letters is always a tough one) Haha, indeed :) > $ kde4-config --path kcfg > /home/sdowdy/.kde/share/config.kcfg/:/usr/share/kde4/config.kcfg/ > > While i'd just sort of discovered these in looking in more depth in > trying to determine where these might be found, i never even noticed > that there was a 'kcfg' path, and hadn't looked in detail... Ah, I hadn't thought about that either. > > But as a side affect the also provide a kind of documentation of the > > application's configuration capabilities. > > Yep, cool.. (where's 'kxmleditor' when you need it? anybody know of > a good replacement XML visualization tool? ) I usually just open in Kate and switch highlighting manually to XML. Could be interesting to create a Kate highlighting file specifically for kcfg though :) > So, i presume these files are simply compile-time reference material > when placed in that directory, and are not runtime referenced by the > application. (i.e. it's going to be up to the "distro" maintainer to > ensure they get put there so the average user can reference them, to > see what key values may have been default-overridden at compile-time > in the packaging.) Right. They are only required a compile-time but my guess is they are installed for documentation purposes, like what we are discussing here. Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer KDE user support, developer mentoring
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