[Development] Runtime Platform Content Selection

[Mohamed Fawzi]

On 17 Jan 2013, at 14:35, Sorvig Morten <Morten.Sorvig at digia.com>
 wrote:

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> On Jan 16, 2013, at 5:16 PM, Attila Csipa <qt at csipa.in.rs> wrote:
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>> On 16/01/13 17:36, Mohamed Fawzi wrote:
>>> I am certainly not against the idea of a faster/more efficient static way of choosing resources but it cannot depend on a predetermined directory ordering. I believe we should rather focus the immediate efforts on a subset of the problem, like handling multiple image resolutions within .qrc files.
>>> that could be handled nicely in the current proposal by adding -highres for example to the images.
>>> I se no reason why this "new" URL handler should not look into .qrc files.
>>> 
>>> 
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>> It also wouldn't hurt to check how other platforms are doing it for inspiration, as there are some precedents/prior art addressing this for several years now. iOS has the @2x and -568h naming conventions ( http://www.vigorouscoding.com/2012/03/naming-conventions-for-image-resources-in-ios/ ), Android has http://developer.android.com/guide/practices/screens_support.html , etc
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> I've already adopted the "@2x" convention for the high-dpi/retina support so I suggest we go for that.

if we use @ as selector separator (which I think gives even less clashes than "-") then this could be implemented using what was discussed in the Platfoem Content Selection.

Fawzi
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> Morten
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