Review Request 119977: Mark setProgramIconName() as deprecated, it did not do anything

[Jonathan Riddell]

> On Aug. 28, 2014, 5:02 p.m., Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> > Errr, what do you mean it doesn't do anything?
> > 
> > It's used http://lxr.kde.org/source/frameworks/kxmlgui/src/kaboutapplicationdialog.cpp?v=kf5-qt5
> > http://lxr.kde.org/source/frameworks/kjobwidgets/src/kuiserverjobtracker.cpp?v=kf5-qt5
> > http://lxr.kde.org/source/frameworks/kconfigwidgets/src/kstandardaction.cpp?v=kf5-qt5
> 
> Jonathan Riddell wrote:
>     Ug, so all these classes expect a property to be set in QApplication which may be set by KAboutData if you remember to call setProgramIconName(), but not used by any part of Qt?  Should these should be ported to QApplication::windowIcon?
> 
> Albert Astals Cid wrote:
>     Which QApplication property are you talking about?
>     
>     QString KAboutData::programIconName() const
>     {
>         return d->programIconName.isEmpty() ? componentName() : d->programIconName;
>     }
>     
>     KAboutData &KAboutData::setProgramIconName(const QString &iconName)
>     {
>         d->programIconName = iconName;
>         return *this;
>     }
> 
> Jonathan Riddell wrote:
>     yes that's the one, it sets a variable in KAboutData and sets a property in QCoreApplication.  But not the same property as is actually used by Qt to set the icon.  most app authors won't expect to have to call a second method to set the icon especially one that doesn't actually set the icon.
> 
> Albert Astals Cid wrote:
>     I think it's a much better idea to have a Q_COREAPP_STARTUP_FUNCTION in kguiaddons to set the icon based on that property and document that setProgramIconName will set the icon if linking to kguiaddons it than deprecating something that we use.
>     
>     Or even better implement support for applicationIconName in Qt itself.

Those both seems excessive.  This property adds no value to Qt, it should just be scrapped.


- Jonathan


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On Aug. 28, 2014, 4:39 p.m., Jonathan Riddell wrote:
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> (Updated Aug. 28, 2014, 4:39 p.m.)
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> Review request for KDE Frameworks.
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> Repository: kcoreaddons
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> Description
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> Mark setProgramIconName() as deprecated, it did not do anything since
> kcoreaddons no longer uses QtGui so it can not set the icon.
> 
> BUG: 337938
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> Diffs
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>   src/lib/kaboutdata.h 2d8bd5645150a57739e94f9f71b112b20ec0e01f 
>   src/lib/kaboutdata.cpp 5ad81de814c123f50b17bb542331459e15649f4b 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/119977/diff/
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> Testing
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> compiled a program made with kapptemplate 4.14.1 which uses this function, successfully gives a warning during compile
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> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jonathan Riddell
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