Good news regarding Qt 5.5

[Marco Martin]

On Friday 08 May 2015 20:16:49 Hausmann Simon wrote:
> Nice - as a plasma user I'm looking forward to the lower memory usage :)
> 
> Regarding the url interceptor:
> 
> Could you make the feature optional? An applet that needs absolute
> package:// urls would have to continue to create it's own engine. But using
> a new constructor perhaps you could introduce new behavior that requires
> the use of relative urls simply, so that you have to resolve the root item
> url only once manually in the framework?

that may be done, and would make most of the stuff work.
however it would still lose some features, besides the package:/ url scheme.

one thing is that it forbids loading qml files that are within other applets 
paths, to be sure applets authors don't get ideas :p

an important thing is some fallbacks of files that package class does:
for the use in devices, the applets can have device specific qml files, 

so, trying to open stuff.qml,
contents/ui/stuff.qml

if the system is configured to be a tablet, would chose instead

platformcontents/tablet/ui/stuff.qml

and fallback to contents/ui/stuff.qml if not existent

we are probably need this a bit more in the future, so I would really love to 
find a way to not lose it
but i can't think about other ways to tap into it since only ways i can think 
of is to ave more context in the interceptor which i don't have or be able to
intercept somehow QQmlContextData::resolvedUrl() (eh, too bad isn't a virtual 
:p)



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Marco Martin