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

[piotr maliński]

phonon got it's own module, qt-webkit also. So for such "complex" widgets a
"qt-extragui" could be created - for widgets that offer more that basic UI
functionality.

2009/1/12 <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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