[Development] Proposal: Disable AutoText in Qt 7

[Cristián Maureira-Fredes]

On 8/3/26 7:26 PM, Andreas Hartmetz wrote:
> Am 29.07.26 um 09:52 schrieb Kai Uwe Broulik:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> Qt has a feature called AutoText where when you have a label (both in 
>> Qt Widgets and Qt Quick) and its contents “look like HTML” 
>> (Qt::mightBeRichText) it will switch to rich text (styled text) and 
>> start interpreting it as HTML.
> A probably impractical idea to preserve some of the convenience: 
> Distinguish "static" text input from "runtime" text input and preserve 
> the auto rich text feature for the former. Some languages make a 
> distinction between user-supplied strings and validated strings, but 
> that seems like much too big of a change. This would need a predictable 
> and conservative (if in doubt, not richt text) heuristic to really 
> improve safety and the ability to see through translations to make it 
> useful enough.
> Just mentioning it in case somebody can think of a good way to implement 
> it.

Like something similar to Template String from Python?
https://peps.python.org/pep-0750/
or you had a diff feature from another programming language in mind?

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