[Development] Moving QDesktopServices from Gui to Core?

[Marc Mutz]

On 07.05.24 14:58, Tor Arne Vestbø wrote:
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>> Honestly, I don't understand the push-back for the move. It seems only
>> logical to me: QUrl is in QtCore, so IMHO, it's only logical to have
>> QUrl _handlers_ in QtCore, too. And in other emails, I showed use-cases
>> of CLI programs that need openUrl(), but not the rest of QtGui.
>>
>> So, we have use-cases and we seem to have no technical reason to not
>> move the code (if we can provide it as private API, there can't be many).
> 
> As I mentioned earlier, twice I think now, there is overlap to intents/activities, which are also URL based. If we want to build a Qt API for this, it would make sense to not propagate the (legacy) QDesktopServices openUrl/urlHandler APIs further.

In which way are we propagating the API further? We're just moving it 
from one library to the next. And QtNetworkAuth is already using it.

Do you have some timeline for intents/activities? Because the improved 
OAuth support is ready _now_, for 6.8., if it weren't for the 
undesirable QtGui dependency.

If and when intents/activities replace openUrl(), QtNetworkAuth will 
have to be ported, QtCore move or not, public API or not.

Thanks,
Marc

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