[Development] QtSingleApplication in Qt proper?

[Thiago Macieira]

On segunda-feira, 20 de junho de 2016 22:57:38 PDT André Pönitz wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 07:59:32AM +0200, Kevin Funk wrote:
> > On Donnerstag, 16. Juni 2016 00:19:10 CEST Kevin Funk wrote:
> > > (snip)
> > > 
> > > Question: Is there an interest in having QtSingleApplication in Qt
> > > proper? Say qtbase? We'd love to do the work if there's a chance for
> > > it being accepted.
> > 
> > Heya,
> > 
> > Thanks for all the comments, I'll work on introducing
> > QtSingleApplication into QtCore, including porting it to QLockFile,
> > including porting it away from the QCoreApplication base.
> 
> You mean port away from QApplication?
> 
> Anyway, I don't quite get it:
> 
> - QtSingleApplication is as easily accessible as other "bread and
>   butter" parts of Qt via git, hosted by the same entity,
> 
> - no other parts of Qt depend on QtSingleApplication nor would
>   see any kind of UX/Performance/whatever boost if they did,
> 
> - we jump through major hoops and put major effort to have something
>   resembling a modular system with independent repos,
> 
> - every now and than we have the feeling that Qt Core / Qt Base
>   grows too much fat/looks like a dumping ground of nice-to-have
>   feeatures/whatever and we are not happy
> 
> and still we move stuff *needlessly* to Qt Core?

I'd like to see KUniqueApplication deprecated, as it relies on some 
undocumented and fragile QtDBus functionality (namely, connecting to the bus 
before QCoreApplication is created).

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