[Development] Qt desktop components project

[Mark]

On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 2:15 PM, Bache-Wiig Jens
<Jens.Bache-Wiig at digia.com> wrote:
> Anyway, a theming question. How can the QML Desktop Components
>
> currently be themed? Only by means of QStyle? Would there be a way to
> use kde's plasma themes in the QML Desktop Components? And do the
> desktop components depend on QWidgets only because of QStyle.
>
>
> Yes we have already been researching quite a bit on that. Right now you can
> already style things by setting delegates on Components just like ListView.
> But a global platform theme is still not possible. I have some local patches
> that does precisely that but there are some details for instance with
> respect to scroll bar styling where things get rather complicated. (i.e how
> do you handle user feedback, such as clicking on sub controls, without
> putting all the logic in the style itself?).
>
> We have also been prototyping a css-like selector mechanism that picks QML
> components based on their object hierarcy and class name. You can find that
> here: https://gitorious.org/qtquickcomponents-styling. This only solves a
> subset of the theming problem though. I have asked Richard to post a brief
> explanation in the qt-components mailing list so we could continue the
> discussion there.

Awesome, just subscribed there. I didn't even know there was a list
dedicated to the Qt Components. It doesn't seem to be a high traffic
list :)
>
> There are other dependencies on QWidget like QMenu, QAction and possibly the
> standard dialogs. I don't think these dependencies are much of a problem for
> a desktop application. But right now we have to create hidden widgets behind
> the scenes to fix errors in various styles. That is not something we should
> be doing for the released Qt5 version.

Yes, i agree. That sounds quite dirty.
>
> Regards,
> Jens
>