1 /** @mainpage ./kconf_update
3 kconf_update is a tool designed to update config files. Over time applications
4 sometimes need to rearrange the way configuration options are stored. Since
5 such an update shouldn't influence the configuration options that the user
6 has selected, the application must take care that the options stored in the
7 old way will still be honored.
9 What used to happen is that the application looks up both the old and the
10 new configuration option and then decides which one to use. This method has
12 - The application may need to read more configuration files than strictly
13 needed, resulting in a slower startup.
14 - The application becomes bigger with code that will only be used once.
16 kconf_update addresses these problems by offering a framework to update
17 configuration files without adding code to the application itself.
19 See the <a href="http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/KDE/kdelibs/kconf_update/README.kconf_update?view=markup">README file</a> for more information.
22 Waldo Bastian \<bastian@kde.org\>
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