KLocale QML bindings

[Marco Martin]

On Saturday 14 January 2012, Giorgos Tsiapaliwkas wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> me and Antonis have created a branch with the name
> "plasma/terietorANDkokeroulis/KLocaleQMLBindings" at kde-runtime.
> The branch contains the a wrapper which will be our QML bindings for
> KLocale.
> 
> The bindings are not ready,we have just added the Q_PROPERTY,Q_ENUMS
> stuff and we removed all the deprecated methods.
> So,feel free to modify the code. Any notes,observations are more than
> welcome,actually we need them :) since none of us is good at QML.

thanks for working on that ;)

i taken a look on it.
it basically maps 1:1 tyhe api of klocale, and i think that's fine.

just a couple of comments:
*many q_invokables have out parameters, like translateRawFrom, i don't think 
that will work

* not all types will be binded and recognized, i.e Q_INVOKABLE KCurrencyCode 
*currency() const;

* i'm not sure about allowing functions that influence the bahavior, like bool 
setEncoding(int mibEnum);

*every exported function or property should be tested that it actually works

* it's not a plasma thing, i think it should go in a plugin of its own
like org.kde.klocale

* the filename should be lowercase

* keeping the apidocs is fine, but all the @since lines should go

a not so nice effect would be every qml files that wishes to use it would have 
to instantiate one (so one qobject more) but i don't see alternatives except 
setting an instance in the global context (like it's done in Plasma theme) but 
on the other hand this could be not *always* needed, so this way should be 
fine

Cheers,
Marco Martin