<div style="text-align: left;">Hi people.<br><br>The patch I'm submitting doesn't relate to any specific bug #. It's just an item of work in the general porting effort that is going on over in kde-windows. Jaroslaw Staniek recommended that I submit it here. It's also my first-ever patch submission to an OSS project.<br>
<br>The patch replaces all directory and file information function calls (readdir_r, KDE_stat, etc) with Qt functions in method void DirectoryListThread::run() in kdelibs\kio\kio\kurlcompletion.cpp<br><br>Please note (and read my comments on these points further down):<br>
1) that this patch only concerns method void DirectoryListThread::run() and does not represent a full port of the complete module to exclusive use of Qt functions. <br>2) line 56 of the patch (becomes line 228 in the final source file) is a commented-out line of code followed by another comment : "// This would be the better way but isHidden() doesn't regard ".[filename]" as hidden on all OSes". This is meant to potentially replace the line of code that follows immediately but is up for discussion (see below).<br>
<br>Regarding point #1 : If people approve of this patch and would like me to port the rest of the file, please say so, I'd love to do that.<br>
Regarding point #2 : I'd like people's opinion on this. I'd prefer to use QFileInfo::isHidden() but this causes inconsistencies with other parts of some applications that believe that ".[filename]" should be construed as a hidden file regardless of what the host OS thinks. If the opinion here is that isHidden() should be used, I'll correct and resubmit the patch and go and promote this idea with the maintainers of the other apps that they should align their design with this decision.<br>
<br>Cheers,<br><br>Michael O'Shea<br><br></div>