Allowing ExclusiveGroup for checkboxes is a design mistake in Qt.

Checkboxes should never be simply mutually exclusive, because people
understand them as being independent. <http://www.nngroup.com/articles
/checkboxes-vs-radio-buttons/>

Checkboxes should seldom ever be related to each other at all. For
example, in a set of formatting checkboxes, [_] Bold  [_] Italic  [_]
Underline  [_] Double underline, the last two might be mutually
exclusive, but otherwise they're all independent.

The real problem here is that the Ubuntu toolkit is missing radio
buttons (bug 1211866), so developers are forced to confuse users by
using checkboxes instead.

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  Checkbox should provide an exclusiveGroup property similar to upstream
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