[Development] Qt 5.1 feature set and freeze date

Joseph Crowell joseph.w.crowell at gmail.com
Thu Feb 14 10:36:06 CET 2013


On 02/14/2013 05:58 PM, Ivan Vizir wrote:
> Hello,
> There're no problems with Qt Windows Extras. As I said somewhen in 
> January, I plan to contribute to Qt my code, when it's done. Current 
> results you can see at http://github.com/dtf/QtWindowsExtras .
> For now features what are ready are:
> --- progress bar indicator;
> --- overlay icons;
> --- thumbnails for tabs;
> --- thumbbar button panels;
> --- jump lists (not yet pushed to GitHub).
> Featurens that are going to be done:
> --- interactive wrapper around jump lists, maybe using Platform Menu.
> --- adapting code so it could be used with QtQuick (that means moving 
> from using QWidgets to QWindow and/or splitting code to two versions 
> --- for widgets and for qt quick respectively).
> I thought I could finish module following Qt module guidelines and 
> then propose it for review, but if you want to see Qt Windows Extras 
> as a part of Qt 5.1, we could move it to Qt Playground and work on it 
> together.
> 14.02.2013, 09:38, "André Somers" <andre at familiesomers.nl>:
>
>     Op 13-2-2013 18:24, Jake Petroules schreef:
>
>         QtWindowsExtras is something I plan to contribute to heavily.
>         What things would folks like to see in there besides the image
>         conversion functions? I suggested Windows 7 task bar features
>         a little while back, and I believe that there is a Windows
>         counterpart to QMacPasteboardMime that needs replacing as well.
>

Since the Window frame in Windows is owned by the application, how about 
the possibility of customising the appearance of the Window frame? Or 
being able to catch the window events associated with window frames like 
minimize, maximize clicks so I would write my own cusom window frames.

>     Those taskbar features would be quite welcome. There currently is
>     http://www.strixcode.com/q7goodies/ of course, but that is quite
>     expensive for what you get if you ask me.
>
>     A way to manipulate the color of the progress-bar in the windows
>     style would also be welcome, though I am not sure that belongs in
>     such an add-on. Windows supports states for a progress bar, like
>     error or paused that result in a red or a yellow bar instead of
>     the default green one. You can also see that in the task bar.
>
>     Support for extending the native file dialog in windows would be
>     awesome, but perhaps that's out of scope or something that would
>     idealy be available on more platforms.
>
>     André
>
>
>
>         On Wednesday, February 13, 2013, Knoll Lars wrote:
>
>
>
>             On 2/13/13 10:08 AM, "Friedemann Kleint"
>             <Friedemann.Kleint at digia.com>
>             wrote:
>
>             >Hi,
>             >
>             >we also plan to start Qt Windows Extras to bring at least
>             the missing
>             >image conversion  functions ( QTBUG-27103 ) back provided
>             we can find
>             >someone to create the repository ;-) .
>
>             Ok. Sergio can hopefully help with the repo. Do you think
>             you can get it
>             into a decent state for adding to 5.1 by 1st of March?
>
>             Cheers,
>             Lars
>
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