[
{
"id": "qt-gap-audit-for-chat-apps",
"title": "Audit and document gerbil-qt API gaps for common app patterns",
"description": "During planning for a chat application GUI, we discovered ~14 missing Qt functions in gerbil-qt that are essential for real-world apps: scrollToBottom (QTextBrowser/QTextEdit), QTextBrowser::append for incremental HTML, QListWidget item data roles (store IDs alongside display text), setMinimumWidth/Height/setMaximumWidth/Height for size constraints, QLabel::setWordWrap, setCursor for hand cursor on clickable elements, and QTextEdit::toHtml. A gerbil-mcp tool could automatically compare Qt's commonly-used API surface against gerbil-qt's exports and report coverage gaps organized by app type (chat, editor, dashboard, etc.).",
"impact": "medium",
"tags": [
"qt",
"gap",
"audit",
"widget",
"coverage",
"api"
],
"use_case": "When planning a new gerbil-qt application, quickly identify which Qt features are available vs. need to be added to the C++ shim, FFI layer, and high-level API before starting implementation.",
"example_scenario": "Planning a Webex chat client required checking ~20 individual Qt functions across qt.ss, qt_shim.h, and libqt.ss using grep. Took multiple tool calls to verify each function's availability. A single 'qt gap audit' tool call could have reported all missing functions at once.",
"estimated_token_reduction": "~2000 tokens per planning session (eliminates 10+ grep/search calls to check individual function availability)",
"votes": 1
}
]
