I guess a re-implementation of http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5/qstandardpaths.html would also be no longer needed in libqtxdg
2014-07-25 6:08 GMT+03:00 PCMan <pcman...@gmail.com>: > On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 1:53 AM, Luís Pereira > <luis.artur.pere...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi everybody: >> libqtxdg is still using libmagic as the mimetypes provider. >> Qt5 has mimetypes support: the QMimeDatabase and QMimeType classes. >> QMimeDatabase is cached. >> >> Qt4 has no real mimetype support. I found QtMimeTypes, the father of >> Qt5 QMimeType/QMimeDatabase. I have been contributing to keep it in >> shape. It works (at least) with Qt 4.7.2. It will be used for the >> libqtxdg Qt4 version. The API is exactly the same as the Qt5 ones, no >> #ifdefs needed. lxqt super repo already contains an module with a link >> to the git repo. QtMimeTypes is here: >> https://qt.gitorious.org/qtplayground/mimetypes >> The default for the Qt4 version is using QtMimeTypes. Users that still >> want to use the XdgMime/libmagic (e.g. Razor) can use the CMake >> configuration option: USE_QTMIMETYES=Off >> >> I pushed libqtxdg's changes to an mimetype branch at >> https://github.com/lxde/libqtxdg/tree/mimetypes >> I already started porting all the code to the new API. I will push the >> porting it to an mimetypes branch in each modules that needs update. >> >> When everything is Ok, we merge all mimetypes branches at the same time. >> >> Comments are welcome. >> >> Regards, >> -- >> Luís Pereira > > Great work! > I'd say just keep Qt4 "working" but don't spend too much time to make > it perfect. > Maintaining two code paths doubles the time for test and debugging. > Besides, all X11 related parts are handled differently for Qt4 and Qt5 > port, which is a pain. > I'd suggest that we drop Qt4 and fully migrate to Qt5 ASAP. > Then we only need to maintain one code path, the makefiles will be > much cleaner, and we can start using some Qt5-only libraries, such as > kwindowsystem. > Since KDE 5 is released, Qt5 should be widely available now. > Just my two cents. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Want fast and easy access to all the code in your enterprise? Index and > search up to 200,000 lines of code with a free copy of Black Duck > Code Sight - the same software that powers the world's largest code > search on Ohloh, the Black Duck Open Hub! Try it now. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/bds > _______________________________________________ > Lxde-list mailing list > Lxde-list@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lxde-list ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Want fast and easy access to all the code in your enterprise? Index and search up to 200,000 lines of code with a free copy of Black Duck Code Sight - the same software that powers the world's largest code search on Ohloh, the Black Duck Open Hub! Try it now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bds _______________________________________________ Lxde-list mailing list Lxde-list@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lxde-list
