[Development] When to remove old platform plugins?

[Thiago Macieira]

On quinta-feira, 8 de março de 2012 21.58.25, Andreas Aardal Hanssen wrote:
> 2012/3/8 Holger Hans Peter Freyther <holger at freyther.de>
> 
> > > QWS isn't removed so please don't remove qvfb. qvfb is used extensively
> > 
> > where
> > 
> > > I work.
> > 
> > If your point is that there are still Q_WS_QWS defines in src/widgets you
> > are
> > right, but all (some doc snippets are left) *_qws.{cpp,h} were removed,
> > the
> > gfxdrivers are gone too.
> 
> I certainly missed something then! ;-) I was certain that some bird told me
> that for sure, QWS would still be around in Qt 5. Latest in the summit of
> 2011.
> 
> This sucks :-(.

QWS was tied to Qt Embedded. When Lighthouse came to the point where multi-
process display servers were needed and a replacement for QWS was necessary, 
we quickly came to the conclusion we could adopt a standardised solution.

That was Wayland.

So Wayland replaces QWS in Qt 5.

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