Hi Mark,

(note: now that http://qt-project.org is up and running, I'd suggest
you subscribe there and start directing questions to those MLs,
hopefully e.g. the development list will see some activity..)

On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 8:33 PM, Mark <[email protected]> wrote:
> I want to adjust QShortcut to use it for global shortcuts as well

Nice one!

> Now some questions pop up. It has been said that (global) shortcuts should
> probably be handled through the window manager. In Qt's case that means (?)
> through LightHouse right?

This is going to be platform-dependent, which will definitely involve
lighthouse.

> But how am i supposed to do that? Where is lighthouse even hidden?

You probably want to be looking at the qtbase repository,
specifically, qtbase/src/plugins/platforms/.

> And what happened to QtCore? Is that now QtBase?

Modules and repositories are not a 1:1 mapping, for various reasons
and I'm not the best person to talk about that. But basically, qtbase
is where an awful lot of stuff like qtcore and the platform plugins
live, so that's a good first bet fore 'core' functionality. Most of
the others are fairly self-explanatory, I think, perhaps with the
exception of 'qtpim' which appears to contain the Contacts, Organizer,
etc functionality formerly from Mobility.

> So where do i get started with this?

Assuming you have a working Qt5 build already: have at it. Hack away,
write autotests for your code as much as possible, test your
functionality by writing an example app(s) using it... whatever you
want.

If you don't, then take a look at the README in the Qt5 repo for help
on getting set up (note: you apparently also need to pass '-qpa' to
configure as of recently, I plan to submit a change adding some more
docs to all of that. If configure fails, try adding a '-v' parameter,
too, to see why.)

Pop onto #qt-labs on freenode if you aren't there already, too. Lots
of helpful folks around, just be a bit patient for answers,
particularly if you're asking outside of european office hours.. :)

BR,

Robin
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