[Qt-interest] It would be nice if the QT user interface styling and widgets was as detailed and polished as this.

[Andrew Stuart]

Can I just say first that QT is a great platform and it is much  
appreciated that is is available LGPL.  Great work!

It's good to know that QT is aware that it is behind the state of the  
art in regards to user interface visual style and polish, compared to  
Flex and Silverlight (which appear to me to be the key competitors).

The way software looks - be it end user applications, or the  
frameworks that build them - is ever more important, and if we can't  
build apps that look state of the art then it makes it a little more  
difficult to compete with our competitors who use other development  
platforms/frameworks.

It would be good also if QT does not focus everything on graphicsview  
mode - we can't use it for our applications because partly webkit and  
flash don't work in graphicsview (QT says that this problem is  
impossible to fix due to the nature of the flash player), and partly  
because we found huge numbers of glitches when trying to build  
applications in graphicsview.

 From the outside it 'QT seems intent on building new features and  
subsystems rather than making what it does have world class.  It would  
be nice to feel that QT stops developing new functionality for a  
couple of years and goes back and makes it's existing functionality  
dramatically better.  The alternative is to have a very broad platform  
with lots of features that are only implemented well, rather than  
excellently.

as




On 27/09/2009, at 5:43 PM, Thiago Macieira wrote:

Em Domingo 27. Setembro 2009, às 06.48.56, Andrew Stuart escreveu:
> It would be nice if the QT user interface styling and widgets was as
> detailed and polished as this:
>
> http://examples.adobe.com/flex3/consulting/styleexplorer/Flex3StyleExplorer
> .html

I for one seem to be missing there a simple button that says "look  
exactly
like Windows XP", and also for Windows Vista, Mac OS X, S60, GNOME and  
KDE.

You can do whatever you want in Qt. If you don't think Qt's own  
widgets are
powerful enough, you can certainly draw your own, in the specific  
areas where
you think that's needed. But it's extremely difficult to look like the
underlying operating system without help.

In any case, I also have to agree with you that QStyle is very  
limited. We're
aware of the issue and we're thinking of ways of improving it for the  
future.
Don't expect anything for Qt 4.7 though -- this will require a lot more
research.

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