[Qt5-feedback] "Lion" features

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From: Charley Bay <charleyb123 at gmail.com>
>To: Till Oliver Knoll <till.oliver.knoll at gmail.com>
>Cc: Qt 5 Feedback <qt5-feedback at qt.nokia.com>
>Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2011 3:50 PM
>Subject: Re: [Qt5-feedback] "Lion" features
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>Till spaketh:
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>> What I would like to see in Qt 5 on Mac OSX:
>> > - <snip>, 
>> - "Automatic document save" (with history) support - you know, this "Time Machine for documents" stuff ;)
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>I agree with all of Till's list, but I want to *especially* request the "auto-document-save" (with history) support.
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>It would be *great* if Qt5 provided a good mechanism (API) to do this.  I assume such APIs must be integrated through the application (I'm not sure), so I'd expect (like gestures/mobile/multi-touch) it would be good to get this integrated into Qt5 *now*, rather than pretend they could be added as an "add-on" later.
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>It's possible auto-save-with-history could be an add-on API later, I don't know, but it is a feature I'd really like to have available in Qt.
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While I won't speak as to whether this should be in Qt5 or not, I would suggest that such things where possible be integrated in three stages:

1. Outside Qt
2. As an Add-on
3. If enough demand, integrated as a Qt Module

The delineation between add-on and module can be pretty blurry and probably is more a matter of whether it is packaged with Qt directly or not.
Either way, the above provides a nice path for adding new functionality and APIs. Obviously some may not necessarily follow that kind of path if #3 is high enough to start with.


$0.02


Ben