From kfm-devel  Thu Sep 19 07:42:37 2013
From: Kevin Krammer <krammer () kde ! org>
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 07:42:37 +0000
To: kfm-devel
Subject: Re: Porting dolphin to Qt5/KF5?
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On Wednesday, 2013-09-18, Mark wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 9:05 PM, Frank Reininghaus

> > One could argue that making use of QML/QtQuick2 would be a good
> > mid-to-long-term goal, and I fully agree with that, but I think that
> > this will either require a *huge* amount of work or a major feature
> > loss at the moment (the last time I checked, there were still no tree
> > views available, but maybe that changed in the mean time? Also
> > grouping is not available in Qt's native item views AFAIK). And even
> > if everything that Dolphin currently offers was available in QML
> > out-of-the box, then we would still have to replace the current model
> > with a QAbstractItemModel-based one (something like KDirModel+the
> > additional features, like Nepomuk roles, that have been added in the
> > mean time) or find a good way to make the current code work nicely
> > with QML/QtQtuick2. Either way, I think it would be a huge effort,
> > definitely not something that I could do in the near future
> > considering that I do it all in my spare time ;-)
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> Heh, impossible! Or not possible without a huge amount of work.. What is
> probably easier (and still a huge amount of work) is making a QML view th=
at
> works with the models in Dolphin.
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> As for a tree view, there is no such thing in QML, but it can be created =
by
> nesting ListView components.

There is no such thing as a tree view in QtQuick or QtQuick controls at the=
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moment, but neither does QML depend on QtQuick nor has QtQuick.Conrols be=20
feature frozen.

Even if we assume that QtQuick is to be used as the QML component technolog=
y,=20
anyone could implement a tree view or column view either as a separate modu=
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or for upstreaming into QtQuick or QtQuick.Controls themselves.

Cheers,
Kevin
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Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring

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