On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 8:07 PM, Robin Burchell <[email protected]>wrote:
> 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..) > Another ml.. > > 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/. > oke, cool. Good to see that all key shortcuts are already in those platform plugins. Now i guess i need to figure out where you guys have hidden the QShortcut source ;) and just start hacking and trying. > > > 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. > > Thanx for explaining that. > > 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. > Nope, not done a thing with it yet. > > 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.) > Ahh, black magic ;) Will do. > > 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.. :) > Will do as well. Haven't been there in a while. BR, > > Robin > Thank you for your reply.
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