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

[Eike Hein]

On 11/11/2016 05:02 PM, Alberto Mardegan wrote:
> If QStyle is used by QWidgets, which have been used in apps since well
> before QML existed, it's reasonable to expect that its performance is
> more than acceptable for modern desktop machines.

Not necessarily. This isn't about native QStyle painting, it's about
QStyle going through Qt Quick's rendering stack, which involves
additional indirection.


> Maybe we might have to give up on the idea of a single implementation,
> and instead have a different style for each toolkit? At least with Gtk,
> it might be possible to use native Gtk widgets, as we are already using
> the glib mainloop in Linux, and GtkWidgets allow for offscreen drawing...
> That sounds like a lot of work :-)

That's more or less what QGtkStyle does.


> Ciao,
>   Alberto

Cheers,
Eike