Re: [Lxde-list] [razor-qt] qtxdg Qt5 port

[PCMan <pcm...@gm...>]

On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 10:34 AM, PCMan <pcm...@gm...> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 10:10 AM, Luís Pereira
> <lui...@gm...> wrote:
>> On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 10:48 AM, Jerome Leclanche <ad...@gm...> wrote:
>>> Sorry, I misworded my post. It's not part of Qt, but it's a third party Qt 4
>>> library that acts as an official backport of QMimeType.
>>
>> I found this project on Qt playground
>> http://qt.gitorious.org/qtplayground/mimetypes
>>
>> And this one on github
>> https://github.com/pasnox/mimetypes-qt4
>>
>> The later seems to be based on the playground one and it contains a
>> commit to support 4.7.x.
>>
>>  I will analyse them
>
> Just examined the code quickly.
> It seems to implement xdg shared mime info spec.
> Besides, it also supports cached mime database.
> So it looks as complete as the glib one.
> However, I still want to add a backend based on glib later, which
> wraps glib calls in QMimeDatabase interface. When glib is available,
> the MimeDatabase class can be a "very thin later" on top of it, saving
> some memory.

Well, have a second look. It seems that QMimeType provides more
features than glib.
While wraping glib in a very thin QMimeDatabase like class is easy,
it's not possible to implement QMimeType with it. So I probably won't
do it. :-)

>
> Besides, Qt 5 seems to also provide "QStandardPaths", which can be a
> replacement of qtxdg base dir spec implementation.
>
> Thanks.