[Development] Moving QDesktopServices from Gui to Core?

[Thiago Macieira]

On Tuesday 7 May 2024 10:50:09 GMT-7 Lars Knoll via Development wrote:
> There could also be use cases where you have split your app into two parts,
> a UI running in one process and a backend running in another one. The
> backend doesn’t link against any GUI libraries, but might need to launch an
> OAuth flow in response to something that’s been triggered by the UI. And
> there could be many reasons why you’d want a process separation, security
> being one of them.
> 
> So I do believe there are valid use cases for opening a browser window from
> a process that does not link against a GUI library. Given that the
> implementation doesn’t require anything UI specific neither I don’t see why
> we shouldn’t have it in Qt Core.

I agree with the conclusion. But your premise is talking about it being a 
tightly-coupled UI and non-UI process components. So the non-UI component 
doesn't want to use QCoreDesktopServices::openUrl in the first place: it wants 
to communicate with its UI component through whichever communication mechanism 
it has established.

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