[Development] QtQuickControls for desktop: what's the plan?

[Alberto Mardegan]

On 07/11/2016 14:53, Marco Martin wrote:
> We have a similar problem within the KDE project, 
> As we have an entire desktop environment whose entire styling depends on 
> QStyle, continuing to use QStyle to theme desktop apps, at least on a limited 
> extent is vital.
> As there doesn't seem to be interest in the upstream project in such a thing,
> I started writing a QtQuickControls2 style that actually uses the very same 
> StyleItem used internally in QtQuickControls1, it can be checked out at:
> https://quickgit.kde.org/?p=scratch%2Fmart%2Fdesktopqqc2style.git
> 
> to be installed and then export QT_QUICK_CONTROLS_STYLE=Desktop (probably i'll 
> have to rename it to avoid possible future conflicts with upstream ones)
> 
> Even if is still incomplete (and are things that unfortunately can't be fully 
> styled yet in a fully desktop friendly way) it seems to work remarkably well.

That looks smart and simple! Any plans for submitting that to Qt, maybe
as a playground project?

Anyway, do you have a bug tracker?

Ciao,
  Alberto