[Development] possible API freeze exception: would like to introduce QQuickItem::setAcceptTouchEvents() in 5.9

[Shawn Rutledge]

On May 10, 2017, at 12:51, Robin Burchell <robin.burchell at crimson.no> wrote:

> You mention that this is required due to optimizing the way that event
> delivery works internally in QQuickWindow -- have you considered
> restoring the old behavior there (despite it not being ideal, I think
> there's no disagreement there) possibly behind QT_MAJOR_VERSION guards,
> and switch it over to requiring registration for Qt 6?

I finally got enough hacks added to this https://codereview.qt-project.org/#/c/193245/ that all the tests passed.  So yeah, that’s where we are headed now: we will add the accessors in 5.10, and probably require the use of them in Qt 6, unless we end up needing to do it sooner than that.