From: Charley Bay <[email protected]> >To: Till Oliver Knoll <[email protected]> >Cc: Qt 5 Feedback <[email protected]> >Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2011 3:50 PM >Subject: Re: [Qt5-feedback] "Lion" features > > >Till spaketh: > >> What I would like to see in Qt 5 on Mac OSX: >> > - <snip>, >> - "Automatic document save" (with history) support - you know, this "Time >> Machine for documents" stuff ;) >> > > >I agree with all of Till's list, but I want to *especially* request the >"auto-document-save" (with history) support. > > >It would be *great* if Qt5 provided a good mechanism (API) to do this. I >assume such APIs must be integrated through the application (I'm not sure), so >I'd expect (like gestures/mobile/multi-touch) it would be good to get this >integrated into Qt5 *now*, rather than pretend they could be added as an >"add-on" later. > > >It's possible auto-save-with-history could be an add-on API later, I don't >know, but it is a feature I'd really like to have available in Qt. >
While I won't speak as to whether this should be in Qt5 or not, I would suggest that such things where possible be integrated in three stages: 1. Outside Qt 2. As an Add-on 3. If enough demand, integrated as a Qt Module The delineation between add-on and module can be pretty blurry and probably is more a matter of whether it is packaged with Qt directly or not. Either way, the above provides a nice path for adding new functionality and APIs. Obviously some may not necessarily follow that kind of path if #3 is high enough to start with. $0.02 Ben _______________________________________________ Qt5-feedback mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt.nokia.com/mailman/listinfo/qt5-feedback
