QgsSettings::beginGroup() is superior to QgsSettings::Section

[qgib]

Author Name: Borys Jurgiel (@borysiasty)
Original Redmine Issue: 17376
Affected QGIS version: master
Redmine category:unknown
Assignee: Nathan Woodrow

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Just a simple example:

QgsSettings settings;
settings.begingGroup( "my_group" );
settings.setValue( "my_key", 7, QgsSettings::Section::App )

results with:

@
[my_group]
app/key=7
@

Shouldn't beginGroup() optionally accept QgsSettings::Section? Like that:

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void beginGroup( const QString &prefix, const QgsSettings::Section section = QgsSettings::Section::NoSection );
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I marked it as a bug, as it causes rather unexpected results and makes beginGroup() more or less useless.

[qgib]

Author Name: Giovanni Manghi (@gioman)

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Please check if this issue is still valid on QGIS 3.4.5 or 3.6.

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• status_id was changed from Open to Feedback

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