Em domingo, 13 de fevereiro de 2011, às 07:44:22, Aaron J. Seigo escreveu: > that is easily provably wrong: KDE apps are also Qt apps, they don't require > a window to display its progress and therefore refcounting is needed. i can > trivially write a Qt app that uses the notification dbus service and end up > in the same place.
True.
Let me skip to the point:
> an app-global reference count allows the application to handle this very
> real use case; without it, the use case is not feasible. it's not Qt's job
> to prevent developers from shooting themselves in the foot with features
> that are otherwise needed to get a certain task done.
I agree, as long as the reference count is tied to the window count. People
should understand that a GUI application running with no GUI makes no sense
and should be avoided. So from a usability point of view, you can run jobs,
provided that you get a notification about them, somewhere.
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