Prepping KDirModel and KFileItem for QML

[David Faure]

On Monday 19 November 2012 19:39:19 Mark wrote:
> 4. in org.kde.kio, add a KDirModel subclass (DirModel) and add a
> indexForItem that returns a FileItem object. (this is a
> QDeclerativeItem)

Right, which enforces my point about making this separate: it comes with a 
dependency on a different Qt library than the existing code.

Maybe you don't want to call this indexForItem/itemForIndex though, it will 
conflict a little bit with the methods from the base class (especially the 
itemForIndex one, which would only differ by its return type).
Maybe KIO::QMLFileItem, and indexForQMLFileItem, or something like that.

> @David, is there anything else to further improve this in the frameworks?

Yes, create a "declarative" subdir under staging/kio/src/ (which has core and 
will have gui and widgets later), and put the code there, with a lib of its 
own (libkiodeclarative). I say declarative, but name it after the qt5 library 
that this will depend on...

More precisely:

* if this goes into kdelibs-4.x, then first let it go there, then merge 4.x 
into frameworks, and then split out the stuff. Otherwise git merge will be lots 
of fun.

* if this only goes into frameworks, then create the lib, and put your code 
there.

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