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

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Wednesday 06 August 2008, Loïc Marteau wrote:
> Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > On Wednesday 06 August 2008, Loïc Marteau wrote:
> >> 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.
>
> It is what i supposed but applets are QGraphicsWidget too and have a
> qgraphicsitem for parent, it is not possible to use the same ?

QGraphics* are simply items that live on the QGraphicsScene canvas. they are 
not "real" windows in the sense used for a windowing system (X.org, Win23 or 
MacOS)

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