On Saturday, November 24, 2012 11:09:26 AM Nurmi J-P wrote: > Hi all, > > Thanks to QStyleFactory and QProxyStyle, it is possible to instantiate and > customize any available style. This is not limited to the built-in styles > in QtWidgets, but also works fine for any style plugin since it nicely > avoids the build time dependency to the corresponding style implementation. > > When it comes to the actual style implementations, we have quite a few > refactoring ideas on the table. These ideas include class renames, possible > merges and inheritance hierarchy changes. Not to mention the possibility of > later on pluginizing certain styles to avoid loads of dynamic function > resolving. These ideas are not feasible to implement in time for Qt 5.0, > and for compatibility reasons cannot be done later if the style > implementations remain in the public API. > > Hence we would like to take this opportunity to hide the following QStyle > subclasses from the public API in Qt 5.0: - QFusionStyle > - QGtkStyle > - QMacStyle > - QWindowsCEStyle > - QWindowsMobileStyle > - QWindowsStyle > - QWindowsVistaStyle > - QWindowsXPStyle > > Notice that QCommonStyle will stay public, providing a convenient base for > full custom style implementations. We do also realize that QWindowsStyle > has been a commonly used base class for custom styles. To address that, we > have recently promoted some generic styling code from QWindowsStyle to > QCommonStyle, and changed QFusionStyle, QGtkStyle and QMacStyle to inherit > QCommonStyle instead. We would like to invite anyone interested in custom > styles to give it a try and let us know if any other parts should be > promoted too.
Sounds like a pretty sensible move. It would've been nice though to fix the existing usages (like in WebKit) before landing the change in qtbase. Now the integration of other modules as well as qt5.git is broken :( Simon _______________________________________________ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
