[Qt-creator] Configuration changes

[Kalinowski Maurice]

> 
> Well, the N9 skin is quite close to many Android devices.   I faintly
> recall seeing some docs on creating your own skins as well.

True, you can create your own models, specifying pixel size/dpi etc. of a certain device.

That will help you in case you use no native components or such and all your visual items are generic.

> 
> Are you saying that Simulator will no longer be supported in Qt
> Creator?  Is it dropped already in 2.6?

The Qt Simulator has never been part of Qt Creator, those are two different products with separate roadmaps. The Qt SDK bundled specific versions of the two together so that the developer gets a comprehensive package.

BR,
Maurice


> 
> For me personally the Simulator was quite good.  It was fast, comparable
> to the iPhone simulator.  The QEmu based Android simulator is much slower.
> 
> On 10/09/2012 10:48 AM, Kalinowski Maurice wrote:
> > The Qt Simulator was aiming at Nokia based devices, afaik there weren't
> any other skins available.
> >
> > As Symbian support has been removed and Harmattan/N9 is not actively
> developed anymore, we do not see much value in continuing the Qt
> Simulator right now.
> >
> > In case you have some ideas/suggestions, feel free to contact us, either via
> JIRA or mailinglist.
> >
> > BR,
> > Maurice
> >
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: qt-creator-bounces+maurice.kalinowski=digia.com at qt-project.org
> >> [mailto:qt-creator-bounces+maurice.kalinowski=digia.com at qt-
> project.org]
> >> On Behalf Of Harri Pasanen
> >> Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2012 10:33 AM
> >> To: qt-creator at qt-project.org
> >> Subject: Re: [Qt-creator] Configuration changes
> >>
> >> Does this affect Qt Simulator as well?
> >>
> >> Btw. is there a roadmap for the simulator somewhere?
> >>
> >> /Harri
> >>
> >> On 10/09/2012 10:16 AM, Tobias Hunger wrote:
> >>> Hello everybody!
> >>>
> >>> Since we are no longer Nokia we decided that we need to move
> >>> the settings of Qt Creator. So we made a patch yesterday that
> >>> move all settings from
> >>>        ~/.config/Nokia (Linux and Mac) and
> >>>        %APPDATA%\Roaming\Nokia (Windows)
> >>> to a directory named QtProject next to the Nokia one.
> >>>
> >>> Creator will automatically copy the settings to their new place the
> >>> _first time_ you run a version that uses the new settings location.
> >>> Ideally a user should not notice the move.
> >>>
> >>> Please report any issues you might run into.
> >>>
> >>> We will not delete the old settings in the Nokia folder, so if you
> >>> switch between different versions of Qt Creator regularly you should
> >>> still have the old settings available in Qt Creator pre-2.6. Creator
> >>> will only copy your settings once and will not check the old settings
> >>> for changes once they were copied.
> >>>
> >>> If you want to clean out the now unused settings file then you can
> >>> safely remove profiles.xml, devices.xml, qtversion.xml and
> >>> toolChains.xml as well as anything starting with qtcreator (case
> >>> insensitive) and any backup-copies of those files from the Nokia
> directory.
> >>>
> >>> Other files in the Nokia folder were not created by Qt Creator, so
> >>> better keep those.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> For SDK-Users:
> >>> =================
> >>>
> >>> If you are using Qt versions pre-configured by the SDK: Those need
> >>> to move from /path/to/QtCreator/share/qtcreator/Nokia to
> >>> /path/to/QtCreator/share/qtcreator/QtProject as well.
> >>>
> >>> If you used the sdktool to create your SDK configuration files: Just
> >>> redo your configuration. The sdktool should automatically use the
> >>> correct place to house its settings files.
> >>>
> >>> Best Regards,
> >>> Tobias
> >>>
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