[Development] Qt5 missing features

[BogDan]

Hi Girish,

  I know that almost all QPA API are internal, I'm using them from the 

very begging :) !


   The problem is sometime if you want to create a clean API you also 

must to change other APIs which are public. Let me give you an example 

for better understanding. The QMenu subclass QWidget class, so you 

can use QWidget::show() method to show the menu, the problem is that 

method is not virtual and can not be overwritten in QMenu. Why I want to 

overwrite it? Because I don't want to show the QMenu widget on Android,
I want to use Android's native menu system, this means that show method 

must be changed to virtual, but I'm afraid that you can not do it after the
API/ABI is labeled as stable. Qt 5.0 will guarantee the  API/ABI stability for
the entire life of Qt 5.x meaning that the next chance to do these changes
will be 5-10 years from now!



Cheers,
BogDan.


----- Original Message -----
> From: Girish Ramakrishnan <girish at forwardbias.in>
> To: BogDan <bog_dan_ro at yahoo.com>
> Cc: "development at qt-project.org" <development at qt-project.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2012 12:42 AM
> Subject: Re: [Development] Qt5 missing features
> 
> Hey BogDan,
> 
> On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 11:02 AM, BogDan <bog_dan_ro at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>  IMHO these features are too important to miss the opportunity to include 
> them
>>  in Qt5.0.
>>  Kindly please consider to include these features in final Qt5.0, I 
> don't know
>>  if it will be a second chance to include them without any compromise, 
> without
>>  not worry about API/ABI compatibility.
>> 
> 
> From what I can tell from the patches, they don't add any new public
> api. The QPA API is still "internal" and extendable - we don't 
> need to
> worry about API/ABI issues across minor releases.
> 
> Girish
>