[Development] The place of QML

Atlant Schmidt aschmidt at dekaresearch.com
Thu May 17 20:18:14 CEST 2012


Peter:

> Then Qt Widgets is perfect for you: mature, stable API. You
> only would have a problem when you have to implement features
> which are much better supported by QML.

  Did I mention that we're also coded to depend upon QWS, the
  QT Embedded Window System? ;-)

  That feature is no longer available in Qt 5.x. And switching
  to Lighthouse would require substantial recoding on our part.

                            Atlant

-----Original Message-----

From: development-bounces+aschmidt=dekaresearch.com at qt-project.org [mailto:development-bounces+aschmidt=dekaresearch.com at qt-project.org] On Behalf Of Peter Kümmel
Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2012 12:24
Cc: development at qt-project.org
Subject: Re: [Development] The place of QML

On 17.05.2012 12:35, Atlant Schmidt wrote:
> Peter, et al.:
>
>> We don't wanna use obsolete stuff with a "architecture from
>> the 90s" in times where "graphical technology has moved on" (Thiago).
>
>    Computer architectures don't necessarily "become obsolete".
>    Oh, trends come and trends go, but the fundamental concepts
>    go on forever. For example, Linux is quite popular even
>    though it is arguably a "computer architecture from 1970".
>
>    Often, the proponents arguing for "new and improved" are
>    simply arguing for the position they think will be most fun
>    to work on; after all, it's always more fun to break exciting
>    new ground than it is to have trod the same old sod yet again.
>    But many of these new approaches are just "fashion" and if you
>    wait a few years, fashions will change again and "old and
>    obsolete" will be back in fashion (and often, simply because
>    good sense has returned to the design community).
>
>
>> Most people don't care what happens under the hood (QWidget
>> or QML) when good desktop support is available.
>
>    And some of us *DO* care very much what goes on under the
>    hood. Me, I live in an embedded world running on a ~450 MHz
>    processor with very limited RAM and graphics. There's just
>    enough "stuff" there to make the traditional Qt approach
>    work (just barely) but if the only choice Qt intends to
>    offer me in the future is going to burden me with the
>    overhead of a JavaScript (or even web) runtime, then I'm
>    going to need a new graphical framework.
>
>    Old and obsolete worked for me; New and improved (in this
>    case) clearly isn't likely to.

Then Qt Widgets is perfect for you: mature, stable API. You
only would have a problem when you have to implement features
which are much better supported by QML.

>
>                         Atlant


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