Questions about porting away from kdeui classes

[Mark]

On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 8:47 AM, David Faure <faure at kde.org> wrote:
> On Sunday 01 July 2012 16:24:51 Mark wrote:
>> On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 3:36 PM, David Faure <faure at kde.org> wrote:
>> > On Sunday 01 July 2012 14:07:15 Mark wrote:
>> >> On a related note for KCompletion vs QCompleter.
>> >> I don't think the two should merge.
>> >
>> > I agree :)
>> >
>> >> QCompleter is very UI orientated
>> >> and really meant to hook on to a input field.
>> >> KCompletion is much more basic, it simply completes the data that's
>> >> fed into with the string that's being searched for.
>> >
>> > Right but it's mostly useful in a widget, in the end...
>>
>> Currently, yes. However, QML doesn't have any forms of completion at
>> this moment and that would really be useful in some cases. This is
>> where KCompletion has a lot more value then QCompleter.
>
> Right. That would be a good argument for getting a new completion framework
> into Qt, which would also address KDE's needs.
>
>> Yep. First thing would be cleaning up the KCompletion API anyway at
>> which point the cleaned up API moves to KF5 or Qt 5.x
>
> We cannot move old code from KDE to Qt.
> Mainly because of the licensing issues (past contributors didn't sign the Qt
> CLA), but also because APIs in Qt are usually different (more often value
> based, etc.), and the implementation itself, well, could benefit from a
> rewrite.
>
> But yes, just like I did with QStandardPaths, QMimeType and others, the
> solution is to write clean Qt code from scratch and put that into Qt.
>
> The good thing compared to before OpenGov is that, even if we don't have time
> to do it now, we can at least monitor the Qt development list in order to
> react and give input if anyone starts working on a new completion framework
> for QtGui...
>
> --
> David Faure, faure at kde.org, http://www.davidfaure.fr
> Sponsored by Nokia to work on KDE, incl. KDE Frameworks 5
>

Sounds like a nice GSoC project for 2013 :) (if we can wait that long)