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/** @mainpage ./kconf_update
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kconf_update is a tool designed to update config files. Over time applications
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sometimes need to rearrange the way configuration options are stored. Since
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such an update shouldn't influence the configuration options that the user
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has selected, the application must take care that the options stored in the
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old way will still be honored.
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What used to happen is that the application looks up both the old and the
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new configuration option and then decides which one to use. This method has
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several drawbacks:
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- The application may need to read more configuration files than strictly
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needed, resulting in a slower startup.
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- The application becomes bigger with code that will only be used once.
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kconf_update addresses these problems by offering a framework to update
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configuration files without adding code to the application itself.
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See the <a href="http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/KDE/kdelibs/kconf_update/README.kconf_update?view=markup">README file</a> for more information.
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@authors
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Waldo Bastian \<bastian@kde.org\>
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@maintainers
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[Unknown/None]
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@licenses
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@lgpl
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*/
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