[Development] Qt Quick Controls for Embedded

[Aleix Pol]

On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 10:27 AM, Tomasz Siekierda <sierdzio at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8 April 2015 at 17:35, Oswald Buddenhagen
> <oswald.buddenhagen at theqtcompany.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Apr 08, 2015 at 04:39:52PM +0200, Frederik Gladhorn wrote:
>>> On Wednesday, April 08, 2015 04:30:23 PM Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
>>> so ideally we find the perfect new name for both module and
>>> repository. Sadly we didn't manage to come up with a great name in a
>>> few hours of brain storming.
>>>
>> i think quick controls 2 will work just fine. it's not like people are
>> not used to "asynchronous" versioning in the qt quick world.
>>
>> but anyway, here are some more ideas:
>> - the classic: qt quick controls NG
>> - the diet: qt quick controls light
>> - the thesaurus: qt quick widgets
>> - the cynic: qt quicker controls
>
> I like QtQuick.LightControls.
>
> In general, since both sets are drastically different (in way they
> look like, in the way they perform, in styling capabilities, etc.) I
> do not think giving them similar names (Controls 1 and Controls 2) is
> a good idea - it may strongly confuse the users. Not everybody follows
> the mailing list and blog, so if you name them similarly you can
> expect a flood of questions like "I'm trying to use the new Controls,
> but X does not work, and Y looks different, while Z can't read my
> style definition" etc.

I'd say it's a matter of whether the current QtQuick Controls will
become deprecated (or considered Done). If that's the case, then the
new component is the clear N+1 version.

Also another question is whether they can be mixed. If they can be
mixed then you'll want different names.

Aleix