[Development] Proposal to change connectSlotsByName behavior

[Marc Mutz]

On Friday 04 December 2015 00:05:19 Benjamin TERRIER wrote:
> In my opinion it also breaks encapsulation as the naming in a widget
> can alter the signal/slot connections in another widget.

This is precisely the reason why connectSlotsByName is a bad idea in the first 
place; changing the name of a widget breaks connections (at runtime, not at 
compile time as with QObject::connect()).

Just don't use it. Then we can let the function r.i.p. come Qt 6... :)

Thanks,
Marc

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