[Development] Moving QDesktopServices from Gui to Core?

[Thiago Macieira]

On Tuesday 7 May 2024 10:03:21 GMT-7 Thiago Macieira wrote:
> So I want to know of a use-case where all of the following are true:
> * application is GUI-less (i.e., is a background service)
> * application has no GUI counterpart
> * application is definitely running in a GUI environment

Rethinking a little here, if we drill d own one level it may make sense. 
Replace "application" with "library":

One may want to make a library that has no GUI dependency and implements some 
network service. Therefore, they don't want to link to QtGui for 
QDesktopServices. If the functionality is in QtCore, then they could request 
the browser if the application is GUI.

The problem is that said library needs a fallback if the application is *not* 
GUI. Moreover, I'd question the automatic launching of a browser as part of 
this library's behaviour. A better design would be for it to emit a signal 
indicating it requires something to happen and then to let the application or 
a wrapping library to make a policy decision on what to do.

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Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
  Principal Engineer - Intel DCAI Cloud Engineering
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