[Development] Qt Multimedia as Add-on in Qt 6

[zoltan.lutor at gmail.com]

Any application in 'entertrainment' domain needs multimedia support. Most trivial case are games or (car) infotainment systems but almost any (android) app could have some sound notifications for raising user awareness/indicating some error, etc.

So, when there is user-interaction there is usually some place for some media, too....

Br,

Zoltan

On Friday, May 22, 2020, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> On 22/05/2020 13.43, Jason H wrote:
> > How about I just pay - which my company already does? The lagging 
> > mobile support has us considering moving away from Qt. I think this 
> > decision would confirm our direction and only hasten our departure
> > from the Qt ecosystem.
> > 
> > I guess to some degree it depends on how you define "essential".
> > Clearly multimedia *is* essential
> What's "clear" to you may not be "clear" to everyone. I, personally, 
> don't believe I have ever used QtMM. I can think of applications I might 
> *like* to write that might use it, but plenty of applications I *do* 
> write have no need for it. Most KDE applications don't need it. QtC and 
> Designer don't need it.
> 
> In fact, out of the software I use in a typical day, the only stuff that 
> comes to mind that might need it are:
> 
> - Gwenview (but it's more a nice-to-have)
> - Plasma? (Whatever is responsible for system notifications, anyway)
> - My web browser (except I use Firefox, which does not use Qt...)
> - Dragon
> 
> Really, the only three things I would argue *need* it are my web 
> browser, media player, and the desktop environment itself.
> 
> For quite a few application developers, it is *not* essential at all.
> 
> -- 
> Matthew
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