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

[Thiago Macieira]

Em Domingo 27. Setembro 2009, às 10.43.45, Andrew Stuart escreveu:
>  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.
> 

First of all, it's Qt, with a lowercase t. It's a trademark, so please spell 
it right.

Second, that will never happen. We'll never stop developing features. Much 
less for a "couple of years". Please look at what Qt was 4 years ago, or even 
4.0, and tell me if you were comfortable with the features that were there. 
Does any other toolkit stop developing features?

Besides, you are asking for more features. You are asking for the ability to 
style even more, to control even more the appearance of the application. And 
you're not simply asking for the ability to do that -- which you already have 
-- you're asking that we add features to the widgets that we do ship with to 
support the styling you want. I call that new features.

We have to constantly strike the balance between new features and maintenance. 
We've spent the past 3 releases doing a lot of optimisations and performance 
improvements. We're overhauling some of the internal basics in order to do it 
even better.

Finally, have you taken a look at Declarative UI and QML?

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