[Development] HTML5/CSS vs Qt QML and QtCreator / Assistant

[André Pönitz]

On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 11:37:57AM +0000, Cristian Adam wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: André Pönitz <apoenitz at t-online.de>
> > Sent: Friday, 28 June 2019 13:23
> > To: Cristian Adam <cristian.adam at qt.io>
> > Cc: development at qt-project.org
> > Subject: Re: [Development] HTML5/CSS vs Qt QML and QtCreator / Assistant
> > 
> > > Having the documentation as QML will have no additional constrains for
> > > Qt Creator.
> > 
> > Not in principle, as the pre-built Qt Creator binaries depend on Qt Quick already
> > but one of the reasons to replace the Qt Quick based Welcome plugin by a
> > widget, based one was that users repeatedly run into problems with it, even in
> > rather normal setups, and we were getting tired of recommending  -noload
> > Welcome  as a the default workaround.
> > 
> > Now, Help is not *that* prominent as the Welcome screen, in the sense that it
> > does take one more click to get there, but right now I am not fancying to
> > recommend -noload Help  as a "solution" for anything ;-)
> > 
> 
> The Software OpenGL Renderer should fix any problems that one might have with Qt Quick.
> I tried it with back in 2017 in "Qt Creator, Ubuntu, and VirtualBox" [1]
> 
> I don't know how slow would Qt Creator work in such environments though. 

I have no idea either. My guess is that Ulf might know best.

Andre'