On Thu, Feb 06, 2020 at 01:51:17PM +0000, Alex Blasche wrote: > > > -----Original Message----- From: Development > > <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Thiago Macieira > > > > On Wednesday, 5 February 2020 09:41:58 PST Alexander Akulich wrote: > > > On Wed, Feb 5, 2020 at 6:58 PM Thiago Macieira > > > > > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > The correct signal for an error situation is errorOccurred, like in > > > > QLocalSocket and QProcess. > > > > > > Actually both QLocalSocket and QAbstractSocket renamed the "error()" > > > getter > > > to keep using "error()" signal as opposed to many other Qt modules > > > "errorOccurred()" signals. > > > > Which is the opposite of QProcess and violates the naming convention. > > Signals > > are named after verbs in the past tense and properties & property getters > > are > > simple nouns. So "error" is the getter, "errorOccurred" is the signal. > > Either option solves the ambiguity. What's more important to our users - a > consistent naming convention > or an early warning/compile error when adopting Qt 6?
Consistent naming will be beneficial for a much longer time than any short term incentive to adopt Qt 6. Andre' _______________________________________________ Development mailing list [email protected] https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/development
