[Interest] The willy-nilly deletion of convenience methods

[Thorsten Glaser]

On Sun, 21 Mar 2021, Volker Hilsheimer wrote:

> My gut feeling is that esp for command line applications, a call equivalent to
> 
> $ xwininfo -d $DISPLAY -root
> 
> will be a better solution than creating a QApplication (rather than a
> QCoreApplication) to query the root window ID.

That’s not what I need to do here.

> Alternatively, use Xlib APIs.

You misunderstand.

I need to use the KDE Wallet API. This involves doing a Qt application
and other fancy stuff. The CLI program needs $DISPLAY set and usable,
because that’s where it connects to the KDE wallet. It’s still a CLI,
intended for use in e.g. scripts.

bye,
//mirabilos
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