[Interest] Qt Application deployment across platforms

[Alejandro Exojo]

El Jueves, 5 de septiembre de 2013, Rutledge Shawn escribió:
> But we should be trying to get there, IMO.  The new qml tool (just qml, as
> opposed to qmlscene/qmlviewer) is intended for
> that.  https://codereview.qt-project.org/#change,43540  It can be used as
> a shebang handler on Linux/Unix platforms, and as the default application
> to handle the .qml file type when you double-click a qml file in the file
> manager on all 3 desktop platforms.

+1

I've always though that it would be awesome a qml executable that could run 
simple programs. For instance, I've found the kdialog program a quite handy 
tool in several situations, but is limited to small dialogs in a sequence, and 
shell script. The qml program would be much more powerful in UI capabilities, 
language in which to program on, and of course, cross platform.

However...

I'm partially in the side of those that dislike scripting languages for 
something not trivial. I remember back in the KDE3 days when a nice set of 
administration tools written in Python-Qt3 (guidedog, guarddog, watchdog or 
something like that) was popular as GUI tools for important tasks that usually 
only do in the console. When you loaded then in the Control Center, they were 
clearly much slower to load and less responsive.

Now, in the Nokia N9, I mostly use two python applications (gpodder and 
wazzap), and they are also slow (specially wazzap, which is _really_ slow to 
load and terribly unresponsive; is not that bad with gpodder).

One interesting post by the gpodder author:

http://thpmaemo.blogspot.com/2013/07/the-way-forward-with-python-on-qt-5.html

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