[Development] Qt Quick Controls for Embedded

[Frederik Gladhorn]

On Thursday, April 09, 2015 01:19:24 PM Aleix Pol wrote:
> 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.
The new controls will not support the "native" look at least for the near 
future, so we will not deprecate the Qt Quick Controls yet.

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

They can be mixed, that's already working, by using import as with just the 
version as differentiator. That might be less obvious though.

Cheers,
Frederik


> 
> Aleix
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