[Development] Proposal: Disable AutoText in Qt 7

[Thiago Macieira]

On Monday, 17 August 2026 07:01:18 Pacific Daylight Time Ulf Hermann via 
Development wrote:
> > I agree on attempting to find a solution in Qt 6.x, but I don't think an
> > application-wide setting is the solution. That would apply
> > application-wide to third-party widgets, which may then look broken
> > because they were using AutoText.
> > 
> > We may want to look at #define defaults instead.
> 
> A #define won't do either if the labels etc are initialized in QML.

Right, QML content needs a QML solution. I am not qualified to emit an opinion 
on what a QML solution would look like.

But a QML solution is independent of a C++ one.

> In addition, we need per-version profiles. People will want to say "I
> need to be compatible with Qt 6.14, but I want to adopt all best
> practices up to that".

Sounds like a distinction without a difference. What are you thinking of here?

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Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
  Principal Engineer - Intel DCG - Platform & Sys. Eng.
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