Hi, I'm working on alternative desktop environment based on Wayland and Qt5 mainly designer for Maui, my Linux distribution, and I would like to share some work with you.
Some time ago I needed to create an API for accessing archive files that could be used by many programs. The code is here: https://gitorious.org/hawaii/vibe/trees/master/src/kits/core/archive It's based on KArchive but uses the new MIME Type API provdied by Qt5 in order to determine the archive type and load the appropriate plugin, so other people can extend it easily. The VArchive class has no protected members, it's used by applications that want to open archives by passing either the filename or a QIODevice to the constructor. VArchiveHandler is a base class to implement plugins and contains all the KArchive protected members. Plugins are here: https://gitorious.org/hawaii/vibe/trees/master/src/plugins/archivehandlers The code might need some changes, for example removing VStandardDirectories which is my namespace to retrieve common paths (Maui uses a different file hierarchy which separates what's installed by the operating system from what's installed by the user using bundles or manually building the software or whatever). Cleaning it up shouldn't take you a lot of time. I'm sharing this with you not only because it's a derivate work which might benefit you but also because I know you are going to put a lot of kdelibs stuff into Qt. This is amazing and it's what I always hoped. I've seen KArchive in tier1 (kdelibs, frameworks branch), if this is going to be pushed for Qt 5.1 I might help porting the VArchive staff to it and submit to Gerrit. -- "Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice." (Steve Jobs) _______________________________________________ Kde-frameworks-devel mailing list Kde-frameworks-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-frameworks-devel
