On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 08:43, Thiago Macieira <thi...@kde.org> wrote: > Em quinta-feira, 10 de fevereiro de 2011, às 10:49:08, Stefan Majewsky > escreveu: >> On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 9:14 AM, Thiago Macieira <thi...@kde.org> wrote: >> > The correct way to solve this problem is to show another window >> > indicating that it is doing something and tell me what. We solve both >> > problems at once: there is a window open, so it's not yet a quit from >> > QCoreApplication's sense, and the user gets feedback. >> >> This assumption breaks in KDE because the progress is displayed by the >> kuiserver. > > But we're no longer talking about a KDE application. This is a Qt application, > with no access to kuiserver.
But surely such functionality isn't unique to KDE? Having operations not associated with a QWidget that need to finish before an application closes seems pretty normal. David summed it up: "Instead of just counting open windows, you also count other things which ask to be counted - systray icon and jobs." Ian
