[Development] Source incompatible proposal: removing Qt::WA_ values for widget orientation

[lars.knoll at nokia.com]

On 12/14/11 9:00 PM, "ext Jason Barron" <jason.barron at nokia.com> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>On Wed, 2011-12-14 at 09:34 +0100, ext Robin Burchell wrote:
>> I'd sort of agree to leave it at a bug report, except that it hasn't
>> been done for a very long time already. With that in mind, plus
>> widgets not even having a maintainer at the moment, let alone many
>> contributors, plus that it's definitely not going to be trivial to
>> implement in any cross-platform way (while remaining performant) that
>> I know of, I don't see it happening - hence the mail
>> 
>> This of course doesn't block someone adding this functionality back
>> should they come up with a way to do this that is acceptable ends up
>> maintaining that code, but I don't think it's good that we continue to
>> advertise functionality  that basically doesn't work everywhere - so
>> either that needs to happen before Qt 5, or this needs to go away IMO.
>
>
>Another option would be to try to map those "legacy" enums to the new
>equivalent in Qt 5 for the sake of compatibility:
>
>http://doc.qt.nokia.com/5.0-snapshot/qwindow.html#orientation-prop
>
>
>Given that those attributes really only worked on Symbian anyway, I'm
>not sure it's worth it though.

It's not worth it IMO. Let's remove them.

Lars

>
>Regards,
>Jason
>
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