[Development] QStorageInfo

[Knoll Lars]

On 29/08/14 13:05, "André Somers" <andre at familiesomers.nl> wrote:

>Иван Комиссаров schreef op 29-8-2014 13:01:
>> Иван Комиссаров
>>
>> 29 авг. 2014 г., в 14:46, André Somers <andre at familiesomers.nl>
>>написал(а):
>>
>> Thiago Macieira schreef op 29-8-2014 06:32:
>>>> Could be, but I want to be really clear that it should only be local,
>>>> remote and unknown. I don't want other types like "removable
>>>> magnetic", "removable optical", "removable solid state", "virtual
>>>> regular filesystem", "virtual special", etc.
>>> Just wondering, but what exactly is the problem with providing more
>>> details if such details are available? A combination of flags "local",
>>> "removable" and "optical" would be quite informative.
>>>
>>> André
>> The problem is you can't rely on that information. For example,
>>"optical" is totally useless on Linux (we can't get that info). So, your
>>program should consider that and /*probable*/ not use "optical" flag at
>>all.
>> Still, local/remote/removable flags seem quite reasonable to me
>Even though Qt is a cross-platform toolkit, that does not mean every Qt
>user writes cross-platform software, does it? On windows, I believe you
>_can_ get this kind of information. If my application is targeted at
>Windows, why should I not rely on this kind of information? Just like
>with local/remote, the information may not be available in all cases or
>on all platforms, but that does not mean the information is useless in
>all other cases or on all platforms.

A tend to agree with André here. A least common denominator solution is
usually not what we aim for with Qt.

But let's also add things in order. Local vs remote seems to be the use
case that most people need so let's solve that first. Other attributes can
be added later.

Cheers,
Lars