4.2 feature targets

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Monday 20 October 2008, Guillaume Pothier wrote:
> 2008/10/20 Aaron J. Seigo <aseigo at kde.org>:
> > On Monday 20 October 2008, Guillaume Pothier wrote:
> >> Plasma::Corona::self()->viewportGeometry(id),
> >> we're done (we need that singleton as popupPosition can't have a ref
> >> to the corona, at least at first sight).
> >
> > a singleton isn't really possible without some nasty trickery (e.g.
> > create an object of the subclass, register it with a static method in
> > Corona ... ugh).
>
> Kephal does something like that, if I understand correctly, in the
> abstract Screens class. The constructor of Screen initializes the
> static field, and as a single instance of the concrete subclass is
> ever created, there is no problem. Or do I miss something?

no, it just means that you have to be sure to create the subclass first in your 
application which makes it not-really-a-singleton ... it is doable. just 
rather see if there's a cleaner way to do it

(btw, we used to do exactly that in very early versions of plasma =)

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