From 0728b35735362b5b60301c36781b6a030aa161fb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Veronica Berglyd Olsen <1619840+vkbo@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2025 22:23:20 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Drop the custom data class decorator for now, since it is not
 performance relevant

---
 novelwriter/formats/shared.py |  3 ---
 novelwriter/gui/theme.py      |  4 +---
 novelwriter/types.py          | 29 -----------------------------
 3 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 35 deletions(-)

diff --git a/novelwriter/formats/shared.py b/novelwriter/formats/shared.py
index fecafea9..549f6f19 100644
--- a/novelwriter/formats/shared.py
+++ b/novelwriter/formats/shared.py
@@ -29,8 +29,6 @@ from enum import Flag, IntEnum
 
 from PyQt6.QtGui import QColor
 
-from novelwriter.types import nwDataClass
-
 ESCAPES = {r"\*": "*", r"\~": "~", r"\_": "_", r"\[": "[", r"\]": "]", r"\ ": ""}
 RX_ESC = re.compile("|".join([re.escape(k) for k in ESCAPES.keys()]), flags=re.DOTALL)
 
@@ -42,7 +40,6 @@ def stripEscape(text: str) -> str:
     return text
 
 
-@nwDataClass
 class TextDocumentTheme:
     """Default document theme."""
 
diff --git a/novelwriter/gui/theme.py b/novelwriter/gui/theme.py
index 9c583a80..3f85e2c1 100644
--- a/novelwriter/gui/theme.py
+++ b/novelwriter/gui/theme.py
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ from novelwriter.common import NWConfigParser, cssCol, minmax
 from novelwriter.constants import nwLabels
 from novelwriter.enum import nwItemClass, nwItemLayout, nwItemType
 from novelwriter.error import logException
-from novelwriter.types import QtPaintAntiAlias, QtTransparent, nwDataClass
+from novelwriter.types import QtPaintAntiAlias, QtTransparent
 
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
@@ -50,7 +50,6 @@ STYLES_MIN_TOOLBUTTON = "minimalToolButton"
 STYLES_BIG_TOOLBUTTON = "bigToolButton"
 
 
-@nwDataClass
 class ThemeMeta:
 
     name:        str = ""
@@ -62,7 +61,6 @@ class ThemeMeta:
     licenseUrl:  str = ""
 
 
-@nwDataClass
 class SyntaxColors:
 
     back:   QColor = QColor(255, 255, 255)
diff --git a/novelwriter/types.py b/novelwriter/types.py
index e06177b7..e1b05ead 100644
--- a/novelwriter/types.py
+++ b/novelwriter/types.py
@@ -23,8 +23,6 @@ along with this program. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 """
 from __future__ import annotations
 
-from typing import Any, TypeVar
-
 from PyQt6.QtCore import Qt
 from PyQt6.QtGui import QColor, QFont, QPainter, QTextCharFormat, QTextCursor, QTextFormat
 from PyQt6.QtWidgets import QDialog, QDialogButtonBox, QHeaderView, QSizePolicy, QStyle
@@ -148,30 +146,3 @@ FONT_STYLE: dict[QFont.Style, str] = {
     QFont.Style.StyleItalic:  "italic",
     QFont.Style.StyleOblique: "oblique",
 }
-
-##
-#  Decorators and MetaClasses
-##
-
-T_ = TypeVar("T_", bound=object)
-
-
-def nwDataClass(cls: T_) -> T_:
-    """A simple data class decorator that generates slots automatically
-    and creates an init function to match.
-    """
-
-    def wrap(cls: T_) -> T_:
-        fields = tuple(a for a in dir(cls) if not a.startswith("__"))
-        values = {a: getattr(cls, a) for a in fields}
-
-        def init(self: Any) -> None:
-            nonlocal values
-            for a, v in values.items():
-                self.__setattr__(a, v)
-
-        return type(cls.__class__.__name__, (object,), {  # type: ignore
-            "__slots__": fields, "__init__": init
-        })
-
-    return wrap(cls)