[Kde-games-devel] KMahjongg frameworks branch

[Ian Wadham]

Hi Frederik,

On 03/12/2015, at 3:06 PM, Frederik Schwarzer wrote:
> Am Montag, 30. November 2015, 12:38:14 schrieb Ian Wadham:
>> On 30/11/2015, at 10:52 AM, Frederik Schwarzer wrote:
>>> it might be a bit more tricky
>>> because the files in question are stored in
>>> /usr/share/kmahjongg/layouts/ and I did not see an equivalent to
>>> that in the QStandardDirs namespace.
>> 
>> Do you mean QStandardPaths(?).
> 
> Yes, sorry. Got confused.
> 
> 
>>> Also there is more things like netaccess and configuration stuff
>>> coming from kdelibs4support. Not sure if I want to tackle these
>>> now.
>> The KMahjongg class is using KGlobal::dirs()->findAllResources() and
>> there is a special example of porting that in
>> https://community.kde.org/Frameworks/Porting_Notes/KStandardDirs.
> 
> Yes, but in KMahjongg, findAllResources() is fed from
>    addResourceType( [...] "kmahjongg/layouts/"));
> and as far as I can tell there is no direct way to find certain files in 
> certain subfolders. So I cannot look for 
> "kmahjongg/layouts/*.desktop". The result is an empty list.
> 
> But as I scrolled down the page a bit more, I probably found the 
> solution. One has to locate the folders and the foreach over them to 
> get the files. I will try that tomorrow.

There is an example even further down of how to hand-code a port
of addResourceType( ), a method which is not available in Qt.

>> Don't ask me what it all means, though.  QStandardPaths has been a
>> real stumbling block in Apple OS X implementation.
> 
> I wonder how it could work so far, since there are so many hard-coded 
> path delimiters in KDE.

The prefixes are not so hard-coded and can be set at app installation time
in KDE 4, e.g. .../share in Linux.  Re Qt 5, argument rages over what
those prefixes should be for KF5 apps and libs in an Apple environment.

Cheers, Ian W.