Previously posted at KDE forum but no responses.
The new forum has a limitation that new users cannot put multiple links and images in the post, so I have to post the URLs as code. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Hello. I’m maintaining a cross-platform dialog library, and it uses KDialog under the hood. I encountered a problem about the markup language.
When it was two or thee years ago (in Ubuntu 20.04), kdialog (version 19.12) supports some XML entity escape like HTML, such as (non-breaking space), & (&), " ("), ' ('), and so on.
Image: https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/2662758/241346136-1255342c-f4da-4253-9eba-6e0c7321045b.png
However, it is found that in recent versions of KDialog, some entity are not supported anymore, while some still work.
Image: https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/2662758/243207967-632530ca-eb48-4948-937f-211f28aefb04.png
Image: https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/2662758/241476127-9e31d929-217b-43fc-9739-132e2f25309d.png
I cannot find any KDE documentation that describes this change. When I tried figuring it out from the source code, I found that the code related to displaying text in the dialogs have never changed for years. Git blame shows this:
- The text preprocessing function in KDialog -
https://github.com/KDE/kdialog/blame/master/src/utils.cpp#L46 - KDialog sends the text to KMessageBox under the hood -
https://github.com/KDE/kdialog/blame/master/src/kdialog.cpp#L515 - KMessageBox sends the text to QLabel to display them -
https://github.com/KDE/kwidgetsaddons/blame/master/src/kmessagebox.cpp#L219
Could anyone tell me which version did this change happen, and what has been changed exactly?
See also: native-dialog-rs/native-dialog-rs#41
