[Development] Erroneous Qt TouchBegin event to QGraphicsView ?

Patrick Stinson patrickkidd at gmail.com
Fri Aug 4 14:35:39 CEST 2017


Perfect, thank you Edward.

> On Aug 4, 2017, at 2:10 AM, Edward Welbourne <edward.welbourne at qt.io> wrote:
> 
> Patrick Stinson (3 August 2017 18:43)
>> I have filed bug reports before but am not sure where the line between
>> bug discovery and bug reporting is. For example in this case I am
>> partly asking if widget focus is supposed to work this way to avoid a
>> superfluous bug report. But it sounds like I should just report based
>> on my judgement in the future?
> 
> As a rough rule of thumb, if the software's behaviour violates the [0]
> principle of least surprise - e.g. by doing something weird that's not
> what you expected - and you can't find documentation that overtly says
> that's what you should have expected, then it's worth reporting.  It
> might just be that we neglected to document it, or the documentation was
> too hard to find, but even then we need the bug report, to fix that.  In
> other cases, it'll mean the software is wrong - the more traditional bug.
> 
> [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_least_astonishment
> (OK, so it has aliases)
> 
>    Eddy.



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