Prepping KDirModel and KFileItem for QML

[Mark]

On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 8:01 PM, David Faure <faure+bluesystems at kde.org> wrote:
> 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.
>
> --
> David Faure, faure at kde.org, http://www.davidfaure.fr
> Sponsored by BlueSystems and KDAB to work on KDE Frameworks
>

I will first do the KDE 4.x stuff along with all the suggestions in that area.
once that is done i will try and have some fun with frameworks :)