using QSettings to read an ini file

[high_flyer]

Amm... you code it?
Or I don't understand your question.
Look in to QSettings to see what it does when you call value().
Step through, and see what makes it return and not read the line.
In your subclass then, introduce code that will allow dealing with such lines as the one you have.

Another options is to not use QSettings at all, but write your own class for it.
Since you have rather a simple case (each key is the start of a line, and ends with '=', and value is everything until the end of the line) this should be rather easy to implement.