Re: [Lxde-list] [razor-qt] libqtxdg: Deprecating XdgMimeInfo (libmagic based) & adding XdgMimeType (QtMimeTypes based)

[Jerome L. <ad...@gm...>]

There's no point in worrying about qt4 compatibility. Release 0.8 with
what we currently have, then we can safely drop qt4.

Great stuff though!
J. Leclanche


On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 6:53 PM, Luís Pereira
<lui...@gm...> wrote:
> Hi everybody:
> libqtxdg is still using libmagic as the mimetypes provider.
> Qt5 has mimetypes support: the QMimeDatabase and QMimeType classes.
> QMimeDatabase is cached.
>
> Qt4 has no real mimetype support. I found QtMimeTypes, the father of
> Qt5 QMimeType/QMimeDatabase. I have been contributing to keep it in
> shape. It works (at least) with Qt 4.7.2. It will be used for the
> libqtxdg Qt4 version. The API is exactly the same as the Qt5 ones, no
> #ifdefs needed. lxqt super repo already contains an module with a link
> to the git repo. QtMimeTypes is here:
> https://qt.gitorious.org/qtplayground/mimetypes
> The default for the Qt4 version is using QtMimeTypes. Users that still
> want to use the XdgMime/libmagic (e.g. Razor) can use the CMake
> configuration option: USE_QTMIMETYES=Off
>
> I pushed libqtxdg's changes to an mimetype branch at
> https://github.com/lxde/libqtxdg/tree/mimetypes
> I already started porting all the code to the new API. I will push the
> porting it to an mimetypes branch in each modules that needs update.
>
> When everything is Ok, we merge all mimetypes branches at the same time.
>
> Comments are welcome.
>
> Regards,
> --
>         Luís Pereira
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