It would be nice to have some static convenience functions in QPainterPath to create common paths

Examples:
QPainterPath::linePath(x1, y1, x2, y2);
QPainterPath::rectPath(x1, y1, w, h);
QPainterPath::ellipsePath(x1, y1, w, h);
QPainterPath::pointPath(x, y);

Maybe QPainterPath::textPath(...) and QPainterPath::polygonPath(...) as well?

This would avoid having to write
QPainterPath path;
path.addRect(x1, y1, w, h);
doStuff(path);

instead just
doStuff(QPainterPath::rectPath(x1, y1, w, h));