Hi, I regularly find myself browsing and grep'ing through the source tree to find the implementation of a given class, referenced in the Qt Documentation. Of course, as a newbie to Qt internals, I don't yet intuitively know where all the classes are located.
I find that the insight into the implementation of an API to be one of the major strong points of open source frameworks, because it not only gives a better understanding of how to use the function, it also helps greatly in avoiding problems that become obvious once you see what lies beneath. Although the docs are generally very helpful as is, and may be enough for some programmers, I think it would be an addition of great value to enable quicker access to implementations from the docs. This could be done via a direct hyperlink to the implementation, I think doxygen has such a feature, but I think that even a simple path/to/the/implementation would already be a great thing. (In Java, for instance, this is naturallly present with the java.util.path.to.package scheme.) This is something that integrates well with the open governance concept too, as I think that there's still a considerable gap between users and contributors of Qt. Maybe this is something to consider in order to narrow it a little more. Regards, Pierre _______________________________________________ Development mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
