[vlc-devel] [vlc-commits] Use QT file browser functions which return URLs when possible.

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Le mercredi 28 décembre 2016, 11:53:57 Hugo Beauzée-Luyssen a écrit :
> Any opinion on what the correct solution would be? I'd be in favor of
> making getOpenFileNames always return a URL, and fixing the callsites
> accordingly.

I don't know how hard that would be and how consistently it can be 
implemented.

URIs and file paths are factually separate and conflicting namespaces(*). 
Therefore, they must be treated as separate things. That is why I reject 
proposals of any kind that multiplexes URLs and paths.

I would tend to agree with you: the earlier the conversion from local path to 
file URL, the better. Ideally, Qt would supply URLs and no conversion should 
ever be done (until input thread creation, that is) in the VLC code base.


(*) Absolute paths and absolute URIs can be unambiguously segregated on 
Windows, but in general not on other OSes. In any case, relative locations 
cannot be reliably as URL or path.

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