Review Request 115207: Improve integration QCommandLineParser <-> KAboutData

[Kevin Ottens]

> On Jan. 27, 2014, 7:45 a.m., Kevin Ottens wrote:
> > src/lib/kaboutdata.cpp, line 941
> > <https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/115207/diff/1/?file=235099#file235099line941>
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> >     Not really my type of thing. It's acting on an object behind our back without knowing... what happens to code where setApplication* was called before? Information would be lost and it's not obvious to the user. Looks dangerous to me.
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> >     If we want to factorize the qApp call, and I see the need for that indeed, then that block should be provided by a separate method (setupApplication(QCoreApplication *)?).
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> Aleix Pol Gonzalez wrote:
>     I agree, I only did it this way to avoid the required set up.
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>     An alternative would be to make KAboutData to pass the information to Q*Application when it's initialized (and if it's an application KAboutData...).
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> Alex Merry wrote:
>     Any progress on this?

In that case, wouldn't putting that in setApplicationData better? I see it already attaches properties to the application pointer. Or is that unrelated to what you had in mind?


- Kevin


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On Jan. 21, 2014, 11:36 p.m., Aleix Pol Gonzalez wrote:
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> (Updated Jan. 21, 2014, 11:36 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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> Let the KAboutData set information to QApplication. This way we don't have to duplicate information by passing it to the KAboutData _and_ the QApplication.
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> Diffs
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>   src/lib/kaboutdata.h 2222c9e 
>   src/lib/kaboutdata.cpp f24006b 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/115207/diff/
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> Testing
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> Thanks,
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> Aleix Pol Gonzalez
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