API Review: Tracking down the last beasties

[Dan Meltzer]

2008/10/28 Kevin Ottens <ervin at kde.org>:
> Le Tuesday 28 October 2008, Marco Martin a écrit :
>> seriously tough, the only problem i perhaps see with webview is that it
>> would suggest that as the other widgets is a proxywidget of QWebView, that
>> is not since it uses directly QWebPage, so nativeWidget() will never return
>> anything meaningful..
>
> That's not a big issue IMO since the target users for our API will probably
> never use nativeWidget() anyway.
>
> My idea is more that QWebView is a view you can use for a QWebPage,
> Plasma::WebView is another.
>
>> perhaps we could call it WebPage or WebPageWidget or something like this
>
> WebPage would be even more confusing IMO, because then you have a setPage()
> method which takes a QWebPage as argument.
>
> WebPageWidget would not be confusing, it just lacks accuracy IMO. "Widget" is
> kind of generic while here it's clearly a view onto something. Also it's kind
> of long for no real extra information.

How about Plasma::WebItem ? It fits with the naming for canvas
thingies and is somewhat familiar.  I suppose the issue is that it is
still ambiguous... what exactly would a web item be.
>
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