Qt 4.6 behaves differently when "overloading" signals

[Dario Freddi]

On Saturday 07 November 2009 18:19:44 you wrote:
> That warning and behaviour is about 5 or six years old. I asked thiago
>  about it some weeks before. You only see it now because it only appears in
>  qt developer builds which we only started to use when switching to the qt
>  git repo.
> 
> So i think the ... it worked with qt <4.6 may be unlikely. Are you really
> sure?

Sure, otherwise for example the k3bsetup and some other polkit-qt applications 
wouldn't work as expected with qt 4.5. 

> 
> Mike
> 
> On Saturday 07 November 2009 17:56:24 Dario Freddi wrote:
> > Hello list,
> >
> > I'm writing about a problem I've run into running Qt 4.6.
> > PolkitQt::Action inherits from QAction, and redefines the "activated()"
> > signal of it, so that it gets streamed when the action is also
> > authorized. This used to work fine with Qt < 4.6, but with Qt 4.6 I get
> > this warning line:
> >
> > Warning: QMetaObject::indexOfSignal:PolkitQt::Action: Conflict with
> > QAction::activated()
> >
> > And my application catching the signals actually catches
> >  QAction::activated(). I found out about this behavior also in KDE
> >  Partition Manager and I fear some more apps might actually be hurted by
> >  this.
> >
> > Any thoughts from trolls? Is this an intended change? I quite don't like
> >  the idea to change the name of the signal to make everything work again.
> 

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