[Development] Urgent gerrit change for 5.1: closing the Qt Quick feature gap on the desktop

Donald Carr sirspudd at gmail.com
Mon Apr 1 21:09:12 CEST 2013


@Alan: I find any objection to the colour gray to be thoroughly racist
and an affront to my North Eastern English brethren.

@Paul: If you need financial backing in going to market with your
game, we need to have a long winded conversation over a bottle of
Akvavit

On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 6:22 AM, Tvete Paul <Paul.Tvete at digia.com> wrote:
> I have spoken to Lars, and we have identified a significant feature
> missing from Qt Quick. Lars agrees that this needs to be handled
> immediately.  Unfortunately, Easter vacation in Norway has made it
> difficult to communicate this earlier.
>
> We realize that there is a feature freeze, but it has been decided
> that this is more important. This matter has already been decided, so
> we ask you to be constructive in your comments.
>
> The missing feature, which was regrettably not picked up during the
> Components API review, has been part of Qt from the very beginning. To
> underline its importance, consider that it was added to Qt before
> fonts and text rendering.  I have therefore submitted the new
> component to gerrit, and hope the CI system will not cause
> too many problems. https://codereview.qt-project.org/52659
>
> I am sure you will all realize, once you get over your immediate
> emotional reaction, why we decided to do this, and that making sure
> that Qt Quick is relevant also on the desktop is more important than
> mindlessly sticking to the letter of the submit policy. After all, the
> policies are there to improve the quality of Qt - not the other way
> around.
>
> I append a screenshot, and the source code of the new Qt Quick tutorial,
> showcasing LCDNumber and illustrating how it enables us to finally
> capture the full Qt Desktop experience using the power of Qt
> Quick.
>
> - Paul Olav Tvete
> Principal Software Engineer, Digia
>
> on behalf of Lars Knoll,
> Chief Maintainer of the Qt Project and CTO of Digia
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