QSettings observation and question

According to Assistant, it is possble to make a hierarchical QSettings settings structure by using "/" to separate levels.
On Windows, this works as expected, with "folder" levels in the registry.
In the MacOSX /LIbrary/Preferences/com.company.product.plist on the other hand, there is no "xml hierarchy" as you would expect, instead there are '.' to separate between the levels.
Is this intentional, or a bug?
As long as it works (which it does), I guess it wont make any difference, but for sure it is a bit ugly.

BN

I think that Qt just tries to follow local conventions while keeping its own features.