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KDE Frameworks 5 David Faure 28/06/2012 | Tallinn | Akademy Be Free. KDE About me David Faure 1999-2010: KFM, KIO, KParts, KHTML, Konqueror, KOffice, kdelibs ... 2011-2012: KDE Frameworks 5 Sponsored by Nokia to work on KDE - until now Be

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Be Free. KDE

KDE Frameworks 5

David Faure

28/06/2012 | Tallinn | Akademy

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2/15 Be Free. KDE

About me

David Faure 1999-2010: KFM, KIO, KParts, KHTML, Konqueror, KOffice, kdelibs ... 2011-2012: KDE Frameworks 5 Sponsored by Nokia to work on KDE - until now

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3/15 Be Free. KDE

Available in Qt 5.0

New: QStandardPaths (replaces KStandardDirs) New: QTemporaryDir (replaces KTempDir) New: QMimeType (replaces KMimeType) New: QEventLoopLocker (replaces KGlobal::ref/deref)

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4/15 Be Free. KDE

Available in Qt 5.0 (part 2)

Improved: QTemporaryFile (replaces KTemporaryFile) Improved: QMimeData (replaces KUrl mimedata support) Improved: qDebug (output, first steps for categories) Finally working: QUrl (replaces KUrl)

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5/15 Be Free. KDE

Planned for Qt-5.1

QtCore Command-line arguments Global statics Safe file saving File locking URL path manipulation Locale and date/time (calendar support)

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6/15 Be Free. KDE

Planned for Qt-5.1

QtWidgets QLineEdit: clear button, text squeezing, URL drops QTextEdit: placeholder text QMenu: titles, keyboard navigation QLabel: text squeezing QPushButton: delayed menu etc.

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7/15 Be Free. KDE

No more sycoca

Mimetypes: on-disk caches generated Protocol files: read directly, on demand App desktop files: on-disk cache in progress App/mime user associations: mime.apps file KDE services: to be switched to new Qt plugin framework TODO: K menu (vfolder spec)

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8/15 Be Free. KDE

No more global KComponentData

Application name: QCoreApplication (config file, temp files, etc.) User-visible name: QApplication::setApplicationDisplayName()

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9/15 Be Free. KDE

No more KApplication

DBus registration: KDBusService Native event filtering (X11) -> QCoreApplication Session management -> TODO in QPA

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10/15 Be Free. KDE

No more KToolInvocation

(almost) invokeBrowser, invokeMailer => QDesktopServices::openUrl startServiceBy => DBus autolaunch invokeHelp, invokeTerminal => Keep? Tier4 "KDE consistency" framework No standard solution for help...

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11 /15 Be Free. KDE

No more KGlobal

KGlobal::config() => KSharedConfig::openConfig() KGlobal::dirs() => QStandardPaths:: KGlobal::locale() => QLocale()

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12 /15 Be Free. KDE

Available frameworks (1)

karchive solid threadweaver kcoreaddons (jobs, autosave, backup, cache) kguiaddons (icon loading, color utils...) kwidgetsaddons (additional widgets) kdbusaddons (KDBusService, ...) itemmodels kidletime

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13 /15 Be Free. KDE

Available frameworks (2)

kconfig (uses kcoreaddons for locking) kauth (uses kcoreaddons for jobs) sonnet kde4support

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14 /15 Be Free. KDE

Planned frameworks

i18n
xmlgui
notifications
bookmarks
KIO (core + widgets)
kparts
"KDE consistency"
plasma

...

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Be Free. KDE

Still much to do! Goal: No technical distinction between a "pure Qt" application and a KDE application. All apps are Qt apps, possibly using some frameworks on top.

KDE Frameworks 5

David Faure

28/06/2012 | Tallinn | Akademy

About me

David Faure 1999-2010: KFM, KIO, KParts, KHTML, Konqueror, KOffice, kdelibs ... 2011-2012: KDE Frameworks 5 Sponsored by Nokia to work on KDE - until now

Available in Qt 5.0

New: QStandardPaths (replaces KStandardDirs) New: QTemporaryDir (replaces KTempDir) New: QMimeType (replaces KMimeType) New: QEventLoopLocker (replaces KGlobal::ref/deref)

Available in Qt 5.0 (part 2)

Improved: QTemporaryFile (replaces KTemporaryFile) Improved: QMimeData (replaces KUrl mimedata support) Improved: qDebug (output, first steps for categories) Finally working: QUrl (replaces KUrl)

Planned for Qt-5.1

QtCore Command-line arguments Global statics Safe file saving File locking URL path manipulation Locale and date/time (calendar support)

Planned for Qt-5.1

QtWidgets QLineEdit: clear button, text squeezing, URL drops QTextEdit: placeholder text QMenu: titles, keyboard navigation QLabel: text squeezing QPushButton: delayed menu etc.

No more sycoca

Mimetypes: on-disk caches generated Protocol files: read directly, on demand App desktop files: on-disk cache in progress App/mime user associations: mime.apps file KDE services: to be switched to new Qt plugin framework TODO: K menu (vfolder spec)

No more global KComponentData

Application name: QCoreApplication (config file, temp files, etc.) User-visible name: QApplication::setApplicationDisplayName()

No more KApplication

DBus registration: KDBusService Native event filtering (X11) -> QCoreApplication Session management -> TODO in QPA

No more KToolInvocation

(almost) invokeBrowser, invokeMailer => QDesktopServices::openUrl startServiceBy => DBus autolaunch invokeHelp, invokeTerminal => Keep? Tier4 "KDE consistency" framework No standard solution for help...

No more KGlobal

KGlobal::config() => KSharedConfig::openConfig() KGlobal::dirs() => QStandardPaths:: KGlobal::locale() => QLocale()

Available frameworks (1)

karchive solid threadweaver kcoreaddons (jobs, autosave, backup, cache) kguiaddons (icon loading, color utils...) kwidgetsaddons (additional widgets) kdbusaddons (KDBusService, ...) itemmodels kidletime

Available frameworks (2)

kconfig (uses kcoreaddons for locking) kauth (uses kcoreaddons for jobs) sonnet kde4support

Planned frameworks

...

Still much to do! Goal: No technical distinction between a "pure Qt" application and a KDE application. All apps are Qt apps, possibly using some frameworks on top.

Conclusion