bug #86756: klistview::selectedItems() returns hidden items

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Tuesday 14 September 2004 05:57, Jason Keirstead wrote:
> So really, in what situation would this API be usefull at al? To me it
> looks like a simple oversight.

if the use case is a treeview that the user purposefully select items from and 
then performs some explicit action on them, you may be exactly right.

i'd be surprised if this was the only use case. especially now that we have 
dynamic filtering of lists in use in places such as kmail, juk and elsewhere. 
the patch completely denies the ability to get hidden items which are 
selected back.

a selectedItems(bool includeHiddenItems = true) method would allow both 
"safer" selections in what may well be the common case without crippling the 
API programatically.

there's a difference between saying "This is how it's commonly used, let's 
make it easy, and even the default, way." and saying "You can not use it this 
way, ever."

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Aaron J. Seigo
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