[Development] Integrating QAction and the upcoming QML Action (was QAction-like API for QML)

[Stephen Kelly]

On Wednesday, December 19, 2012 08:57:31 André Somers wrote:
> Op 18-12-2012 20:34, Shawn Rutledge schreef:
> > On 18 December 2012 20:05, Mark <markg85 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 6:46 PM, Alan Alpert <416365416c at gmail.com> 
wrote:
> >>> D) QCoreAction is added to Core or Gui and has even less
> >>> functionality, QQuickAction and QAction/QGuiAction build on top of
> >>> that to fill out their API.
> 
> My preference is D, obviously. I think it makes a lot of sense to be
> able to use actions in core, non-GUI layers of the application.

Qt is primarily for creating Guis. I sympathise with the desire to use Action 
API in a 'core only' API without linking to QtGui or QtWidgets, but it's not 
what we should optimise for.

Maybe it's something we can design for in Qt 6, but for now, focusing on 
solving problems in UI development should be reflected in our API and design 
choices. I'm thinking mostly about keeping QIcon, QKeySequence etc in the API.

Thanks,

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