[Development] api changes

[Samuel Rødal]

On 04/13/2012 07:27 PM, ext Girish Ramakrishnan wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 10:18 AM, Samuel Rødal <samuel.rodal at nokia.com> wrote:
>> On 04/13/2012 07:08 PM, ext Girish Ramakrishnan wrote:
>>> My current understanding of the "qpa" plan is this, correct me if I am wrong:
>>> 1. Files with _qpa in them are supposed to be used by plugins and
>>> plugins only. If you see, _qpa.h being used in application code, they
>>> are using a binary and source incompatible Qt. _qpa.h also lacks the
>>> 'we mean it' header which I will add.
>>
>> Mostly, though I guess an application might use QPlatformNativeInterface
>> to get access to a platform specific resource (such as the X display or
>> the wayland display or window handles etc). Maybe we'll need to make a
>> public API front-end for that down the line.
>>
> OK, I can add api in the appropriate classes. For example,
> nativeResourceForBackingStore goes as QBackingStore::nativeResource
> etc.

Yep, sounds reasonable.

> Do we want this for Qt5.0? I think we do, this is very important for
> userland especially KDE. Since this is new api, there is no fear to
> breakage to existing code.

Right.

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Samuel