Thread: QSettings are saving settings in Unknown Organization.conf? Move it after all QCoreApplication.set*()
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2012-04-25 , 05:14
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I've just found out that some software (at least in the extras-devel) didn't use QSettings correctly. Their code looks like this:

Code:
       settings = QtCore.QSettings()
       QtCore.QCoreApplication.setOrganizationName('%irrelevant%')
       QtCore.QCoreApplication.setOrganizationDomain(%irrelevant%')
       QtCore.QCoreApplication.setApplicationName('%irrelevant%')
Where in needs to be

Code:
      QtCore.QCoreApplication.setOrganizationName('%irrelevant%')
       QtCore.QCoreApplication.setOrganizationDomain(%irrelevant%')
       QtCore.QCoreApplication.setApplicationName('%irrelevant%')
       settings = QtCore.QSettings()
It results in a situation where multiple packages garbage the file ~/.config/Unknown\ Organization.conf

I hope that simple grep in postinst script will suffice for moving this settings after fixing the code.