[Development] [Interest] qmlx11 plugin

Poenitz Andre Andre.Poenitz at digia.com
Wed Feb 5 16:24:35 CET 2014


Rutledge Shawn [Shawn.Rutledge at digia.com]
> On 5 Feb 2014, at 11:16 AM, Damian Ivanov wrote:
> > I made a c++ QML plugin  for X11 functions like windowlist, active
> > window, setting, getting icon of apps, names, id and setting netwm
> > properties. Source code is here
> > https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/home:damianator:qmlx11/qmlx11
> [...]

> Personally I wish we had some of that as QPA APIs (at least window list
> and window icons), but of course it assumes that we can do the same
> thing on the other platforms.  

I don't see why that "of course" assumes that we can do the same
on the other platforms. Having stubs doing nothing/returning something
harmless would be easier to handle in such cases for user code
than to build special platform dependent packages, integrate with
build systems etc. 

Andre'


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