On 03/04/2013 01:08 PM, Sorvig Morten wrote:
>
> On Mar 4, 2013, at 8:13 AM, Samuel Rødal <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> What about things such as offscreen platform plugins used for testing?
>> Or what about a theoretical platform plugin that would stream rendering
>> commands to somewhere else? Imagine running wayland clients on Mac or
>> Windows for instance, with the server being a Linux machine. Or a
>> platform plugin that lets you run your Qt applications inside Second Life.
>>
>> There might be these and other use cases on Windows and Mac in the
>> future, so I wouldn't recommend going back to the Qt 4 way of thinking.
>
> I don't think this is a problem in practice since you can run against e.g. 
> Wayland on on Mac and still link against ApplicationServices. Of course, the 
> native conversion functions would be of little use then.

True, so conversion to from "plain" structures such as CGRect etc is 
probably not a big deal. Let's however not expose any platform plugin 
implementation details in the QtCore / QtGui APIs.

--
Samuel

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