[Qt-interest] What about adding best community Qt widgets to the Qt library?

[Oliver.Knoll at comit.ch]

piotr malinski wrote on Sunday, January 11, 2009 11:08 PM:

> There are some very nice Qt widgets (on qt-apps.org and other sites)
> made by qt coders. What about selecting "the best" of them, and work

Wasn't there just a competition put into life by Qt Software, calling for the best widgets on http://qtsoftware.com/ last year (ending in December or so)? ;)

> with their authors in incomporating them to Qt? For example there is
> "qtermwidget" - a terminal widget, pictureflow, qf-macnvabar, and
> other.

if "Incorporating" means "putting them into a separate (and optional) module", something like QtWidgets4.so or something, then yes. Otherwise I prefer to download them separately and add them to my application as needed (instead of having a blown-up QtGui module). While a "picture flow" widget would certainly be nice for a multimedia player, for example, it certainly is not needed for most typical Qt applications, I'd dare to say :). "Keep the API as slick as possible". Just my 2 cents.

But apart from that Qt Software has already done that in the past, for example the QCalendarWidget (http://doc.trolltech.com/4.4/qcalendarwidget.html). And I assume they will continue to do so in the future - maybe we'll see the winner widgets from above contest in the near future in the Qt API ;)


Cheers, Oliver
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Oliver Knoll
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