[Development] Qt Quick Controls for Embedded

[Frederik Gladhorn]

We want to give you the code, here it is :)
https://codereview.qt-project.org/#/admin/projects/qt-labs/qtquickcontrols2

It is in the qt-labs namespace which means "no guarantees, no commitment, 
we'll rename and break everything".

Besides this little warning, I think there is a great repository to play with 
:)

Build it against the dev branch of Qt (that'll be 5.6 as minimum requirement 
for now).

Feedback welcome!

Cheers,
Frederik


On Wednesday, April 08, 2015 03:18:27 PM Frederik Gladhorn wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> as announced by JP's blog post, we've been working on a new set of Qt Quick
> Controls that have slightly different goals than the existing ones:
> http://blog.qt.io/blog/2015/03/31/qt-quick-controls-for-embedded/
> 
> The main target is performance, especially on low end hardware.
> The code will live in the qtquickcontrols module, next to the existing
> controls. For now there is only one style supported, with some theming
> capabilities. This is an important point to get top notch performance.
> 
> Now is the time to give everyone the chance to play with the new controls
> which are at a "tech preview" level. Since the architecture is different, we
> want to keep a clean separation in the qtquickcontrols git module and will
> move the code around to accommodate both modules within the repository. The
> plan is to create two top level directories in the repository: a controls1
> directory containing everything currently in the repository
> (src/tests/examples), and a controls2 directory to contain the new controls.
> 
> Note that both sets of controls will be co-installable and work together.
> That is to say, the following will work just fine:
> 
> import QtQuick.Controls 1.x as Controls1
> import QtQuick.Controls 2.x
> 
> After a long discussion, we think that going with a major version is
> easiest, as we didn't find a great name that makes it clear what the new
> control set provides; "Embedded Controls" or "Touch Controls" don't quite
> seem right.
> 
> Greetings,
> Frederik
> 
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