Porting to KF5 - kimageio question

[Albert Astals Cid]

El Dilluns, 18 de maig de 2015, a les 08:00:07, Martin Koller va escriure:
> On Sunday 10 May 2015 19:39:07 Alex Merry wrote:
> > On Saturday 09 May 2015 22:54:49 Martin Koller wrote:
> > > I'm working on porting kolourpaint to kf5.
> > > Now I find the following:
> > > KDELIBS4SUPPORT_DEPRECATED_EXPORT QStringList typeForMime(const QString
> > > &mimeType);
> > > 
> > > The comment says: Use QMimeType::name() instead().
> > > 
> > > However this seems incorrect.
> > > typeForMime() returned a format string usable for QImage::save(), e.g.
> > > "image/png" returns "PNG"
> > > QMimeType::name() returns the name of the mime type, which is again
> > > "image/png", which I can not pass to QImage::save()
> > > (typeForMime() gives the X-KDE-ImageFormat field from the desktop file,
> > > and
> > > the mime type is in the X-KDE-MimeType field)
> > > 
> > > So, is there a REAL alternative for this method ?
> > 
> > Ah, you want QMimeType::suffixes() instead, since QImage types are
> > essentially file extensions.
> 
> no, this is not the same.
> suffixes() returns a QStringList(!), for instance this would return "jpg",
> "jpeg" for image/jpeg. But the QImage::save() method needs exactly ONE
> specific string as format. How should my code know which one to use ?
> 
> > I had plans a while back to submit a patch to Qt to do implement the
> > equivalent of typeForMime and its inverse properly (using the data in the
> > QImageFormat plugin metadata), but never got round to finishing it.
> > Hopefully I'll have the time and energy to pick that up again at some
> > point.
> I'd say a better solution would be to simply have no need for such a method,
> e.g. allow that QImageWriter (QImage, QPimap) accepts a QMimeType.
> 
> So what to do about the deprecation ?
> Why was it done in the first place with no alternative ?

People make mistakes? Have you tried emailing directly the person that did the 
deprecation?

Cheers,
  Albert