[Qt5-feedback] QMimeType in Qt5

[lars.knoll at nokia.com]

Adding to it: Qt would need a class for mime type handling. So let's sit
down and figure out how that could look and then get something going for
Qt 5.x :)

Cheers,
Lars

On 6/5/11 12:13 PM, "ext John Layt" <johnlayt at googlemail.com> wrote:

>On Sunday 05 Jun 2011 09:00:37 Ivan Čukić wrote:
>> > Meanwhile, the KDE class needs several other classes, and derives 3
>> > other classes. Integrating in into your application/build system is
>> > not as trivial as the one in QtCreator.
>> 
>> The dependencies it has are not a problem for merging into Qt - it
>> just needs some refactoring.
>> 
>> It currently inherits KServiceType which will be changed, and it uses
>> KUrl which largely exists due to some parsing problems in QUrl. We are
>> hoping to push the fixes to QUrl to allow us to drop KUrl in kdelibs
>> 5.
>
>Just it restate it another way, KDE has a KMimeType class which is
>heavily 
>used by our libraries and apps and we have a lot of experience in the
>area.  
>If a QMimeType were to be added to Qt then we would be very interested in
>working together on it to share our experience and to see if it would
>allow us 
>to drop our own implementation.
>
>Cheers!
>
>John.
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