Op 1-3-2013 11:52, Konstantin Ritt schreef:
> 2013/3/1 André Somers <an...@familiesomers.nl>:
>> Op 1-3-2013 10:22, Иван Комиссаров schreef:
>>
>> I don't think it's a good idea to try to fix QStorageInfo.
>>
>> The main argument is that QStorageInfo is a monitor+info provider, but
>> monitor should depend on a DBus in Linux; however info provider doesn't
>> require that. Also, monitor requires internal thread on Mac. My point is
>> that in many cases, when you doesn't need monitor itself, it's too heavy to
>> create such a huge object just to receive volume info.
>>
>> I don't find that a convincing argument. The implementation could be such,
>> that the heavy machinery is only instantiated when somebody actually
>> connects to the monitoring signals. We have connectNotify and
>> disconnectNotify available for that in QObject.
>>
>> That's why i separated my solution into 2 different classes; so QtDriveInfo
>> doesn't require external dependencies, like DBus.
>>
>> I think I would prefer to have the controls and notification signals
>> directly on the QDriveInfo class itself. That seems to be more consistent
>> with the rest of the Qt API, where I can't think of other examples of a
>> separate controller class.
> Consistent with what API? To me, QDriveInfo is just like QFileInfo
> (incl. the ability to control the cache) and the monitor is just like
> QFileSystemWatcher that can send you a changed/added/removed driveinfo
That's true, indeed. I did not think about QFileInfo (even though that's 
not my favourite part of the Qt API).

André

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