Review Request: setWidget(QGraphicsWidget*) in Plasma::Dialog

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Wednesday 06 August 2008, Loïc Marteau wrote:
> Is there case when qwidget is better to use than qgraphicswidget ?

usually when there's a ready made widget with interaction, such as buttons or 
drop downs.

> Here we embedded a qgraphicswidget inside a qwidget (Plasma::Dialog),
> why it is more relevant to do that and not directly provide a
> Plasma::GraphicsDialog who not inherits from qwidget but natively from
> qgraphicswidget ?

because we need something to give to the windowing system to show, which means 
a native window at some point (the top level item in this case).

a QWidget can do this, but a QGraphicsWidget can't.

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