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

[David Faure]

On Monday 13 January 2014 18:04:24 Tony Van Eerd wrote:
> > 1) well, it can go to qt base, but what module? We can't add mount and
> > monitor to qtcore, because Linux implementation will require dbus.
> 
> I'm not familiar with the details there, can you briefly explain why dbus is
> necessary and why it is a bad thing for qtcore?

QtCore can't link to QtDBus, since QtDBus links to QtCore.

Mounting can still be done with `mount`, no?
Notifications mean listening to dbus signals though, indeed. Tricky.
Maybe by using libdbus directly, but this contradicts the long term plan of 
not using libdbus in QtDBus (AFAIK).

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