[Development] File Selectors API, still for 5.1?

[Alan Alpert]

Whoops, re-sending to dev...

On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 1:38 PM, Alan Alpert <416365416c at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 12:32 AM, Stephen Kelly <stephen.kelly at kdab.com> wrote:
>> On Monday, March 25, 2013 18:19:57 Alan Alpert wrote:
>>> More time to iterate is always welcomed. This may lead to a
>>> source-incompatible change in Plasma Packages though, ideally we'd
>>> only do that once with the existing incompatible change of KDE
>>> Frameworks 5. Would that be using the 5.1 or 5.2 APIs?
>>
>> KDE Frameworks 5 will use the qt5.git dev branch until that has the features
>> it needs. KDE won't release plasma+frameworks5 on top of Qt 5.1 because it
>> doesn't have the required features.
>>
>> Whether Qt 5.2 will have all required features remains to be seen. The todo
>> list is long: http://community.kde.org/Frameworks/Epics/Qt_5.1_Merging and
>> even that list is only 'things needed in Qt before a release can be made'. The
>> list of 'things to do in the KDE libraries before we can release' is also a
>> long one.
>>
>> So, don't worry about release-timing relating to this issue. Whenever this
>> feature reaches the qt5.git dev branch, the plasma developers can start using
>> it in parallel development.

 Oh good. I misread that page as "aiming to release on top of 5.1".

>>> BlackBerry has run into performance issues reading from the
>>> filesystem, but it's still not something to worry about until an API
>>> is sorted out.
>>
>> Those problems were solved already, right?
>
 In general, yes. But I'm still not happy with the costs of unnecessary
 file access in the QML engine so I've been working on reducing those
 (it's not a BlackBerry specific performance cost or fix, it's just one
 that's been noticed by BlackBerry apps).

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 Alan Alpert