Hi,
How come no one has ever gone the extra mile and implemented elide modes for
QLabel, QPushButton, etc.. yet? Is there some catch here?
I’ve been working with Qt for years, I know countless others that do so too and
I can vouch for you that each and everyone has found the need to implement
elide mode support first for QLabel and then for other widgets for any project
that is bigger than 1k LOC. Now each and every one of those implementations,
mind you, they are separate, redundant and futile, countless man hours wasted.
There are and were many issues years old, decaying with no action on them:
QTBUG-18575 <https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-18575>
QTBUG-13445 <https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-13445>
So is there any catch? I’m inviting the veterans especially to shed some light
here, Thiago? Font rendering and handling maybe? Since I can’t think of any
widget side impediments in the overall SDK picture. I searched for a KDE
alternative, thinking that maybe we’re waiting that to be ported to base, but
that doesn’t seem the case either.
Or maybe this is just a case of, “Oh, no one wants to do it, let’s wait until
we really have to.” ? If this is it and there’s no hidden reasoning behind this
long overdue leftover, I’d be happy to put some effort and contribute a patch
for that. At least it’ll spare me the effort of implementing elide modes time
and time again for each new project.
Thank you,
Shinnok
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