KFileInfo: using shared data

[Hamish Rodda]

On Saturday 15 April 2006 02:17, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> Hamish Rodda wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >I was looking at KFileInfo and noticed that it was marked as "/// KDE4
> > TODO: make them refcounted, e.g. using QSharedMimeData."
> >
> >So, I started out porting it over to be implicitly shared using
> > QSharedData. Went pretty easily, for the most part.
> >
> >However, changing from pointers shared copies doesn't work well, because
> > when a change is made it means that all of the other instances don't
> > get the change.
> >
> >Is the plan to make this class explicitly shared?
>
> QSharedMimeData is supposed to be about implicitly sharing.

I'm aware of that.  dfaure and I talked on irc and we decided that KShared was 
what we want here (we want to keep the pointer behaviour with memory 
management for free).

Cheers,
Hamish.
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