[Development] Ref-counted quit

[Stephen Kelly]

On Thursday, December 29, 2011 23:33:35 Thiago Macieira wrote:
> On Friday, 30 de December de 2011 01.48.12, Stephen Kelly wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > The ref counted quit feature I was working on was vetoed. At the moment
> > it looks like Qt will not get a ref counted quit feature. It is blocked
> > because no solution has been proposed.
> > 
> > http://codereview.qt-project.org/#change,10408
> > 
> > I'm just moving the discussion here. I know asiego is not subscribed to
> > the Qt mailing list though, so I imagine it will be hard to keep him in
> > the discussion. Follow it here instead:
> > 
> > http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.qt.devel
> 
> To be clear: I don't like the front-end API.

As the current API is a low-level API, you can put any front-end API you wish 
on top as an alternative. I'm not convinced that would solve any problems 
though. I don't think you've proposed a concrete enough front-end API to 
evaluate.

> 
> To fix the front-end API we need to find out what the use-cases are that
> we're trying to solve. So far, I've only heard one: preventing an
> application from quitting while it has out-of-process windows open.

We have been discussing other use cases for some time.

There's also the non-gui Akonadi case (which is running many jobs which are of 
no interest to the user), and the case the cleanup cases aseigo brought up on 
the review request.

> 
> Are there more?
> 
> If there are not, then we can create an API for that one use-case.

Can you propose an API that satisfies all available use-cases so far?

Thanks,

-- 
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