[Qt-interest] future of a desktop UI

[Martin Gebert]

> but seeing the big move and enthusiasm to Adobe air, Google Chrome as
> an application runner, html 5 with local storage,
> I feel like the tendency is here ...

This tendency exists for 5 years at least, and a lot of it is simply PR
and news hype... I see net based apps as complement for distinct use
cases, not as replacement of local GUI apps.

> I also find that it is easier to make an html pages + design,
> that a client application ...

I think the other way round, especially when considering the
implementation of the business logic behind it, but I've got my roots in
a no-network age and I still consider it optional and potentially
unstable. However, YMMV, and (repeatedly) it depends on the requirements.
Current example from my job: I just finished a two-tier app (Qt UI,
Qt-based backend) to control and monitor robot arms - try controlling
something that's not connected to your workstation by ethernet reliably
(yet not hard realtime) with a web app. Look beyond your own nose and
you'll recognize that there are a lot more use cases in application
development than just the ones you know from your daily experience...

Martin