meven added a comment.
In D26122#581717 <https://phabricator.kde.org/D26122#581717>, @apol wrote: > I might be missing something, explaining why it's necessary would be useful for the commit log as well as for lost reviewers like me. I replaced my first use case by KFilePlacesModel::closestItem. The use case is to avoid redundant code doing this over and over just like KShell::tildeExpand does : plasma-desktop/kcms/kfontinst/lib/Misc.cpp:391 plasma-desktop/kcms/baloo/filteredfoldermodel.cpp:50 plasma-workspace/runners/baloo/baloosearchrunner.cpp:176 plasma-workspace/libnotificationmanager/job_p.cpp:120 solid/src/solid/devices/backends/fstab/fstabdevice.cpp:61 REPOSITORY R244 KCoreAddons BRANCH master REVISION DETAIL https://phabricator.kde.org/D26122 To: meven, #frameworks, broulik, ngraham, ervin Cc: apol, kde-frameworks-devel, LeGast00n, GB_2, michaelh, ngraham, bruns
