Review Request 111689: desktoptojson -- convert .desktop files to .json for plugin metadata

Milian Wolff mail at milianw.de
Sat Aug 3 22:45:06 UTC 2013



> On Aug. 2, 2013, 9:08 a.m., David Faure wrote:
> > staging/kservice/tools/desktoptojson/kconfigtojson.h, line 31
> > <http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/111689/diff/8/?file=175878#file175878line31>
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> >     I don't like file-static QStrings (global objects), and even less in headers (it creates an unused variable in any user of the header).
> >     
> >     My suggestion: define the command-line options in the KConfigToJson constructor or runMain().
> >     
> >     To go even further and avoid the need for shared strings completely: store the two QCommandLineOptions as members of the class, and pass them to isSet() and value(), instead of strings.
> >

What's wrong with file-static QStrings that come out of a QStringLiteral? This can/should imo be seen similar to a static const int or similar. If we could rely on C++11 we'd write it as "constexpr QString foo = QStringLiteral("bar");" after all, no?


- Milian


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On Aug. 3, 2013, 10:07 p.m., Sebastian Kügler wrote:
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> (Updated Aug. 3, 2013, 10:07 p.m.)
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> Review request for KDE Frameworks and David Faure.
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> Description
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> Small program which takes a .desktop file and converts it to json. This is useful to convert plugins which have their metadata in .desktop files (i.e. all KDE plugins) to Qt's new plugin system.
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> Diffs
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>   staging/kservice/src/desktoptojson/CMakeLists.txt PRE-CREATION 
>   staging/kservice/src/desktoptojson/kconfigtojson.h PRE-CREATION 
>   staging/kservice/src/desktoptojson/kconfigtojson.cpp PRE-CREATION 
>   staging/kservice/src/desktoptojson/main.cpp PRE-CREATION 
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> Diff: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/111689/diff/
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> Testing
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> Converted metadata of several plugins and used them from QPluginLoader -- works.
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> Thanks,
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> Sebastian Kügler
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