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On July 27, 2013, 6:41 p.m., Eike Hein wrote:
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> (Updated July 27, 2013, 6:41 p.m.)
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> Review request for Plasma, Marco Martin and Sebastian Kügler.
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> Description
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> DeclarativeMimeData::setData() is QString type, QString data, while 
> QMimeData::setData() is QString type, QByteArray data. The former ends up 
> calling the latter with data.toLatin1().
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> I have a need to set a QByteArray payload in the taskbar - X11 WIds, as 
> understood e.g. by pagers.
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> The proposed patch changes the DeclarativeMimeData::setData() signature to 
> QString type, QVariant data. The implementation checks whether the QVariant 
> is a byte array, and if so, hands it to the base class implementation. If 
> it's not a byte array, it checks if it can be converted to a QString, and if 
> so, hands the string version's toLatin1() to the base class. If the QVariant 
> is neither a byte array nor convertable to a string, nothing is done.
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> This means behavior changes as follows:
> - Byte array support is back.
> - Anything that QVariant knows how to convert to a QString is converted. This 
> maybe subtly different from how QML "casts" to QString, but I think fits the 
> original sentiment of changing the signature to use QString.
> - Non-bytearray/string-convertable data is silently dropped.
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> If this patch is accepted, I would like to backport it to KDE/4.11 as well 
> and make use of the improved implementation to restore drag-task-to-pager 
> behavior in the new QML task manager.
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> This addresses bug 322567.
>     http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=322567
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> Diffs
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>   src/declarativeimports/draganddrop/DeclarativeMimeData.h ec725af 
>   src/declarativeimports/draganddrop/DeclarativeMimeData.cpp e7cab10 
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> Diff: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/111748/diff/
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> Testing
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> I haven't even built the thing. It's terribad.
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> Thanks,
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> Eike Hein
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