[Development] moving some SystemInfo stuff into qtbase (was Re: QtDriveInfo module in Playground)

[Matt Broadstone]

On Friday, January 10, 2014, Tony Van Eerd wrote:

> There was some work going on inside BlackBerry to revamp
> QSystemStorageInfo.  Last version I saw had:
>
> QDrive:
> - similar to QDir (not a QObject!).
> - construct from URI/path (ie "dev/sda1" or "D:\")
> - mount/unmount/is-it-mounted/list-of-mount-points/etc
> - total/available space
>
> QDriveWatcher:
> - QObject, constructed from a QDrive (or uri/path)
> - Signals when a particular drive is mounted/unmounted
> - also signals on activity-state changes (ie for SD Cards 'busy', etc)
>
> QDriveListWatcher
> - get list of drives
> - signal when drives are added/removed
>
>
> Maybe we can get it put up for review...
>

Yes please :)

Matt


>
> P.S. note that Windows (NTFS) now has "real" mount points, as well as
> D:,E:,...
>
>
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> rim.com at qt-project.org <javascript:;>] On Behalf
> > Of Rutledge Shawn
> > Sent: Friday, January 10, 2014 11:15 AM
> > To: Lorn Potter; <development at qt-project.org <javascript:;>>; David
> Faure; Alan Alpert
> > Subject: [Development] moving some SystemInfo stuff into qtbase (was
> > Re: QtDriveInfo module in Playground)
> >
> >
> > On 1 Mar 2013, at 11:20 PM, Lorn Potter wrote:
> >
> > > On 02/03/13 07:59, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> > >> On sábado, 2 de março de 2013 07.51.04, Lorn Potter wrote:
> > >>>> Wasn't there already similar functionality in QtMobility?
> > >>>> QSystemStorageInfo seems to provide similar functionality?
> > >>>
> > >>> Yes it does.
> > >>>
> > >>>> Or did all
> > >>>> that get scrapped in Qt 5?
> > >>>
> > >>> It's there in qtsystems, which is a hidden module.
> > >>
> > >> As I said before when QSystemStorageInfo came about, I think the
> > functionality
> > >> belongs in QtCore. With less emphasis in QML and mobile, of course.
> > >
> > > systeminfo works on all platforms, mobile or not.
> > > The udisks functionality would have to be removed if moved to core.
> >
> > I would like to at least have something like
> > QSystemStorageInfo::logicalDrives() to use in building the QML
> > FileDialog.  (QDir::drives() provides drive letters on Windows but not
> > mount points on Linux, which is asymmetric IMO.)  The reason is to have
> > similar functionality on operating systems which will rely on the QML
> > FileDialog as on Windows and OSX: when you plug in a removable drive,
> > or mount a network drive, there should be a shortcut to access it in
> > the file dialog.  So where should we start, and how much should we try
> > to bring over in the first pass?  Is anyone else interested in working
> > on patches for that?
> >
> > If it doesn't have public QML API, that's OK for now, because I have
> > some C++ support code for the dialogs anyway.  But maybe we should try
> > to bring back (and improve) some of the QML APIs too?
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