[Development] Proposal to deprecate the amazing QApplication::globalStrut

[Christoph Feck]

On 12/04/19 12:56, Volker Hilsheimer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> QApplication::globalStrut is a property that has outlived its purpose.
>
> IIRC, then I added that in the early Qt 2 days, anticipating that with Qt/Embedded we might see our widgets landing on touch screens “any moment now”. The idea was to have a global setting that ensured that widgets and other interactables (such as menu items, list items, checkbox markers etc) are at least x,y pixels large.
>
> Well, the world has moved on, and the value has never been consistely used in styles or widgets anyway.

I am not in the position to object code changes, but the Skulpture 
widget style fully respects the globalStrut for all widgets since many 
years.

https://kdepepo.wordpress.com/2009/03/12/global-strut-feature/