Review Request 121265: Make modified flag work for KMainWindow::setCaption(QString, bool)

[David Faure]

> On Nov. 27, 2014, 8:18 a.m., Martin Gräßlin wrote:
> > weird suggestion: why not let the window manager handle it? Expose it as an X11 property which gets read by the window manager/desktop shell and applies a semantic way to highlight that it's modified.

This would require changes in Qt, a bit out of scope for this shorter-term making-it-work patch, no?


- David


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On Nov. 27, 2014, 3:10 a.m., Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote:
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> (Updated Nov. 27, 2014, 3:10 a.m.)
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> Review request for KDE Frameworks.
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> Repository: kxmlgui
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> Description
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> The API dox of KMainWindow::setCaption(const QString &caption, bool modified) claims that the flag modified specifies "whether the document is modified. This displays an additional sign in the title bar, usually "*"."
> See http://api.kde.org/frameworks-api/frameworks5-apidocs/kxmlgui/html/classKMainWindow.html#aa78364d5eeb1c1f5bd333c733378741d
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> Currently that is not true. Instead a warning is shown on the console:
> "QWidgetPrivate::setWindowModified_helper: QWidget::setWindowModified: The window title does not contain a '[*]' placeholder"
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> When 'KDialog::setCaption(QString, bool)' was moved to 'KMainWindow::setCaption(QString, bool)' for kf5, it was dumped that the old code also called ' makeStandardCaption(...)' which would add a custom "[modified]" string if the 'modified' flag was set. See http://api.kde.org/4.x-api/kdelibs-apidocs/kdeui/html/kdialog_8cpp_source.html#l00475
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> Now KMainWindow uses the 'windowModified' property of 'QWidget', and if doing so, the windowtitle needs a placeholder where to put the modified marker, by the form of "[*]". See https://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5/qwidget.html#windowTitle-prop
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> This patch proposes to comply to the API and to add that placeholder, so the method behaves as expected. It does not use "[modified]" flag like the kde4libs variant of the code did, but by using the Qt placeholder perhaps can even integrate better into the platform (not sure if there is a hook yet).
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> Diffs
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>   src/kmainwindow.cpp 9562318 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/121265/diff/
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> Testing
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> Modified is now properly marked to Off or On in the window title, when 'KMainWindow::setCaption(QString,bool)' is used. Tested with Okteta.
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> Thanks,
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> Friedrich W. H. Kossebau
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