Trolltech <-> KDE contact point for critical issues

Benjamin Meyer ben at meyerhome.net
Sat Jul 15 23:19:28 BST 2006


On Saturday 15 July 2006 10:44 am, Simon Hausmann wrote:
> On Saturday 15. July 2006 10:16, Olivier Goffart wrote:
> > Le vendredi 14 juillet 2006 14:30, Peter Kümmel a écrit :
> > > Simon Hausmann wrote:
> > > > We would like to hear about issues and (missing) features in Qt 4
> > > > that are critical to the release of KDE 4.0. Getting the Qt dbus
> > > > bindings working on Windows is a good example for that. (and thanks
> > > > Peter for investigating, btw)
> > >
> > > It's not critical to KDE because it's already in kdelibs, but why not
> > > move KLockFile and KTemp* to Qt? Does this not complete the file
> > > handling provided by Qt?
> >
> > What's missing to QTemporaryFile to replace KTempFile ?
> > I see only the way to specify an extention, and file permissions.
>
> At least the file extension support Benjamin fixed already (that's also in
> the 4.2 tech preview), by simply supporting the extension in the template:
> QTemporaryFile tmp("fooXXXXXX.txt") for example.
>
> But I think Dirk also had some security concerns. Dirk, do you remember the
> details?
>
>
> Simon

It probably still makes sense to have a KTemporaryFile constructor that will 
place the file inside KDE's standard temp dir location.

-Benjamin Meyer

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