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

[Konstantin Ritt]

https://codereview.qt-project.org/73945

Regards,
Konstantin


2014/1/10 Matt Broadstone <mbroadst at gmail.com>

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> On Friday, January 10, 2014, Tony Van Eerd wrote:
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>> 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:,...
>>
>>
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: development-bounces+tvaneerd=rim.com at qt-project.org
>> > [mailto:development-bounces+tvaneerd=rim.com at qt-project.org] On Behalf
>> > Of Rutledge Shawn
>> > Sent: Friday, January 10, 2014 11:15 AM
>> > To: Lorn Potter; <development at qt-project.org>; 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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