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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