[Interest] QDatastream, QMap, QImage serialization

[Thiago Macieira]

On Tuesday, 22 May 2018 05:07:05 -03 Konstantin Shegunov wrote:
> > For example, QImage::paintEngine() queries the platform plugin to see if
> > it
> > 
> > can provide a better image painter than QRasterPaintEngine (for HW
> > acceleration, I suppose). That is only possible because QImage is in
> > QtGui.
> > 
> > Currently, there are no platforms taking this opportunity, but do we want
> > to
> > prevent it from ever happening?
> 
> Wouldn't it be the same from the point of view of a GUI application, when
> the platform plugins are already loaded?
> And fail for console apps, where there are no loaded plugins to be queried,
> so it'd default to the raster engine?
> If this is the actual case then probably this is quite acceptable ...

Please rephrase. Your question doesn't make sense. I wouldn't be asking if it 
were the same.

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