On Monday 18 January 2016 12:48:34 René J.V. Bertin wrote:
> David,
> 
> In your idea of a QSP::addStandardLocation() approach, would that always add 
> to a "global" list (= affect all subsequent calls to standardLocations()), or 
> would you also consider a variant that only affects the next call?

Global.

"next call" is horrible API (another library or another thread might snatch 
that from under you).

> Also, if you think we should avoid thinking of this as "providing an 
> XDG-compliant mode", we should probably also find a different name for the 
> KStandardPaths wrapper class we've been discussing. Thoughts (other than 
> QMoreStandardPaths :))?
> FWIW, that wrapper class could implement the variant mentioned above that 
> adds an element to standardLocations() transiently.

Seems like a mix of two ideas. If you route calls via a wrapper, then it can do 
the extra lookups itself, it doesn't need to add paths to QSP.

-- 
David Faure, fa...@kde.org, http://www.davidfaure.fr
Working on KDE Frameworks 5

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