KCONFIG_COMPILER(1)

💖 KCONFIG_COMPILER 💖

okay bestie, welcome to kconfig_compiler — the KDE configuration compiler ✨ this little icon lives in section 1 of the manual (the "Programming Tool" part of the K Desktop Environment pages, iykyk), and she's here to turn your config dreams into C++ reality. no cap.

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🌸 NAME 🌸

kconfig_compiler — the KDE configuration compiler 💅

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

kconfig_compiler [Qt-options] [KDE-options] [options] file.kcfg
                 file.kcfgc

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so here's the tea ☕ kconfig_compiler generates C++ source code from two files, periodt:

• the first file, .kcfg, is where all the info about your configuration options lives 📝
• the second file, .kcfgc, is the one holding the code generation options 🎀

and the source code it spits out? it contains a class that's based on KConfigSkeleton, which gives you an API to access your application's configuration data. it's giving ✨organized✨, it's giving 💅main character💅.

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🔥 OPTIONS 🔥

🍓 Arguments 🍓

• file.kcfg — the input kcfg XML file, bestie 📥
• file.kcfgc — the code generation options file, the vibe-setter 🎛️

💜 Options 💜

• -d, --directory <dir> — the directory to generate files in, defaults to [.] (as in, right here, right now, no cap) 📁

🌈 Generic options 🌈

• --help — show help about options, your classic "what do I do" button 🆘
• --help-qt — show the Qt-specific options 💙
• --help-kde — show the KDE-specific options 💜
• --help-all — show all the options, the whole buffet 🍽️
• --author — show author information 👑
• -v, --version — show version information 🏷️
• --license — show license information 📜

🎀 KDE Options 🎀

• --caption <caption> — use caption as the name in the titlebar 🪟
• --icon <icon> — use icon as the application icon 🖼️
• --miniicon <icon> — use icon as the application icon (yes, again, that's what it says) 🐣
• --config <filename> — use an alternative configuration file 📂
• --dcopserver <server> — use the DCOP server specified by server 🖥️
• --nocrashhandler — disable the crash handler so you can get core dumps 💀 (choose chaos, respectfully)
• --waitforwm — waits for a WM_NET compatible window manager ⏳
• --style <style> — sets the application GUI style 💅
• --geometry <geometry> — sets the client geometry of the main widget — see man X for the argument format 📐

💙 Qt options 💙

• --display <displayname> — use the X-server display displayname 🖥️
• --session <sessionId> — restore the application for the given sessionId 🔄
• --cmap — causes the application to install a private color map on an 8-bit display 🎨
• --ncols <count> — limits the number of colors allocated in the color cube on an 8-bit display, if the application is using the QApplication::ManyColor color specification 🌈
• --nograb — tells Qt to never grab the mouse or the keyboard 🙅
• --sync — switches to synchronous mode for debugging 🐛
• --fn, --font <fontname> — defines the application font 🔤
• --bg, --background <color> — sets the default background color and an application palette (light and dark shades are calculated) 🎨
• --fg, --foreground <color> — sets the default foreground color 🖌️
• --btn, --button <color> — sets the default button color 🔘
• --name <name> — sets the application name 🏷️
• --title <title> — sets the application title (caption) 📛
• --visual TrueColor — forces the application to use a TrueColor visual on an 8-bit display 🌈
• --inputstyle <inputstyle> — sets XIM (X Input Method) input style. possible values are onthespot, overthespot, offthespot, and root ⌨️
• --im <XIM server> — sets the XIM server 🛰️
• --noxim — disable XIM 🚫
• --reverse — mirrors the whole layout of widgets 🪞

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👀 SEE ALSO 👀

• http://developer.kde.org — the KDE Developer's Corner website 🌐 (go look, bestie, it's right there)

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💀 BUGS 💀

please use bugs.kde.org to report bugs — do not mail the authors directly, they're busy being iconic 🙈

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👑 AUTHORS 👑

• Cornelius Schumacher <schumacher@kde.org> — Author. 💖
• Waldo Bastian <bastian@kde.org> — Author. 💖
• Zack Rusin <zack@kde.org> — Author. 💖

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📌 NOTES 📌

1. bugs.kde.org — http://bugs.kde.org 🔗

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and that's the whole page, bestie 🫶 this was brought to you by the K Desktop Environment, dated 2006-06-01 — vintage but still ate, fr fr. mwah 💋 ✨