[Development] Removing overloaded signals in Qt6

[Sérgio Martins]

Hi,


The Qt5 PMF connect syntax is wonderful and very elegant compared to Qt 
4.
Unless, ofc, you have overloaded signals, which makes it painful to 
write and read. Not even qOverload makes it look much better.


I suggest we rename such signals, as KDE is already doing for KF6 (maybe 
leave the old signatures there, to reduce Qt6 SIC)
There's also a new clazy check 'overloaded-signal' to help finding them.


Relevant bug report: QTBUG-47225


I know there are downsides, but keeping things as they are is just 
worse.

Signals and slots are the bread of butter of Qt. Syntax for overloading 
signals is just too much of a barrier for new-comers, who currently 
aren't
even able to connect a QComboBox without much hassle.



Regards,
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