On 22 March 2013 21:57, Alan Alpert <[email protected]> wrote: > In one of the patch sets, the form changed from [email protected] to > +selector/file.png . Feedback from designers in BlackBerry suggested > that they were more comfortable with directories, especially when > using it to swap out graphical assets for device variants (which can > lead to a lot of selected files). It's much easier for them to deal > with a group of selected files via directory, which I presume is > because from a GUI file manager you don't have the shell globbing that > I'm accustomed to using. The switch from @ to + is because that works > with my shell auto-complete (~ is already special, @ makes it think > it's part of a URL). Having a special character in the directory name > helps reduce the risk of accidental collisions, and makes selector > directories clear compared to normal directories.
Note that + is a reserved character on VFAT which is often used on SD cards etc. Does that matter for this usage? Rich. _______________________________________________ Development mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
