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

[Jake Thomas Petroules]

QQuickLiquidCrystalDisplayNumber, really? We aren't Cocoa devs. :) Is there a better name that can be used? "LCD number" is rather vague as it is; it could refer to a style like this as well, for example:



How about, QQuickSegmentedNumber, as the digits are drawn in line segments?
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On Apr 1, 2013, at 3:43 PM, Knoll Lars <Lars.Knoll at digia.com> wrote:

> On 4/1/13 5:05 PM, "Thiago Macieira" <thiago.macieira at intel.com> wrote:
> 
>> On segunda-feira, 1 de abril de 2013 13.22.57, Tvete Paul wrote:
>>> 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
>> 
>> Hi Paul
>> 
>> Haven't you got the story mixed up? I know you were there in those days,
>> but 
>> from what I've been told, the LCD widget was added *because* Qt had no
>> text 
>> rendering and we needed a way to show the score in the tetris game. So
>> yes, it 
>> pre-dated text rendering, but there's a causal relationship.
>> 
>> In any case, I'm all for feature completeness and capturing the desktop
>> experience in QML. Therefore, I support this change. Yet, I have to
>> insist 
>> that we hear from Lars before accepting it.
> 
> I've discussed this with Paul before, and we agree that feature parity
> between widgets and Qt Quick Controls is extremely important.
> 
> But I think Frederik has a good point. We try to get away from abbreviated
> names in Qt, so let's give at least the QML type a proper (non
> abbreviated) name.
> 
> Cheers,
> Lars
> 
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