Details
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Epic
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Resolution: Unresolved
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P2: Important
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5.15, 6.3.0, 6.5
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Qt has no answer to Gio and GVfs
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Description
We all know that Alexander Larsson won the battle of the virtual file systems. Today GLib's Gio with GVfs is massively better than KDE's KIO with its kio-slaves.
Any further discussion after about 15 years of debacle is more or less pointless: everybody and everything uses Gio with GVfs. Almost nothing uses KIO (except KDE's software titles). And KIO is completely unmaintained and its code is rotting.
Meanwhile almost everybody wants a virtual file system API from Qt.
I think its implementation should follow Gio's, which unlike KIO's include a rich support for streaming.
I think the API should utilise the QPromise and QFuture advancements that Qt finally has been making in its 6.x series.
And I think it's time to do it.
Perhaps firstly by wrapping GLib's Gio. And by that I mean to rid ourselves of Qt ideologies and allowing a GLib/Gio dependency. Until somebody makes a implementation that is pure to C++ without GLib (yes, whatever).
The problem, I think, with the whole silly debate is that for decades now: we are not making good abstractions that just work for the end-users of the Qt framework.
This end-user really doesn't care about this ideology, or lack of ideology. This end-user just wants a way to address a virtual file system.
I think the end-user is right to expect this in goddamn 2022.
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Issue Links
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QTBUG-108146 move remote resource loading from Qt Quick to QtCore
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QTBUG-86437 Absence of (supported) codec handling in Qt6 / Stream/Text/ReaderWriter
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QTBUG-41387 Can't add a custom file system support (QFSFileEngine, QAbstractFileEngine, QAbstractFileEngineIterator, and QAbstractFileEngineHandler not replaced)
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QTBUG-29121 need QAbstractFileEngine set public export
- Open
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QTBUG-3897 Please make QZip as a permanent class inside Qt
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QTBUG-35688 QQuickTextEdit: Make it possible to change the text document
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