Kevin Kofler wrote: > Luigi Toscano wrote: >> The sidebar is gone. The porting was not trivial (it needed a rewrite, >> still using the non-MVC architecture pre-Qt4) and it was probably "wait >> forever until it's ported, or release Konqueror without". > > That is a really lame excuse. The non-MVC Q*Widget (QListWidget, > QTreeWidget) are still available in Qt 5. They may not fit some developer's > ideals of "cleanliness", but they just work. And even if the code was still > using the old Q3* stuff, porting that to Q*Widget is rather straightforward, > there is no need to port to MVC at all. > > Even if the code was using advanced Q3ListViewItem features such as custom > painting code, it is possible to get that to work in non-Qt3Support Qt 4 and > in Qt 5 without porting to MVC. I have done it in Kompare. Hint: The > QItemDelegate, while documented to work only with the MVC views, actually > works perfectly fine with Q*Widget, because Q*Widgets ARE Q*Views > internally. So just set a QItemDelegate on your Q*Widget that calls a > virtual paint method of your abstract Q*WidgetItem subclass, and then the > concrete subclasses of that class can provide custom paint methods just as > in Qt 3 days. There is no need to refactor the code at all. > > Just see my Kompare porting commits, in particular: > https://cgit.kde.org/kompare.git/commit/?id=b5b759ebb367ddf2a5b8f093c1dfe544f48ce836 > > Fake technical arguments may work with users who are not familiar with Qt, > but you cannot fool me. Sure, so remove the part into the brackets form my sentence; the relevant part is still valid. You are more than welcome to discuss this with David and maybe the new guy who proposed himself as maintainer and propose a patch. -- Luigi _______________________________________________ kde mailing list -- kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to kde-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
