[Qt-interest] What is likely to be in Qt 4.8?

[Yuvraaj Kelkar]

That may be so, but riddle me this: If all I wanted was my app to look
the same everywhere, why wouldn't I just go use Java?
Besides, I remember reading somewhere that QML allows me to create
native look and feel...

On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 11:53 AM, Till Oliver Knoll
<till.oliver.knoll at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Am 24.02.2011 um 00:06 schrieb Yuvraaj Kelkar <yuvraaj at gmail.com>:
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>> Qt without QML uses the underlying window manager and thus from a
>> user-comfort point of view, it is discomforting.
>> With QML, the UI looks and behaves the same no matter which platform.
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> That' funny: in contrast to Java (initially) Qt became very succesful - as a cross-platform toolkit - simply BECAUSE it was and still is using the underlying widgets!
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> YES, I want my desktop app to look and behave like any other Mac app - on a Mac! And I like the KDE look when run on KDE and I do prefer the Windows native widgets on Windows!
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> Ask especially the Mac users, they would tar and feather your QML desktop app as "sorry, not native!".
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> However I do see some areas where QML desktop apps would make sense: "full screen apps", most probably games.
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> That said, taking QML back to mobile devices, personally I'd say the next logical step would be to use an "iPhone push button" on iPhone and a "Symbian push button" on Symbian etc. when a button was specified in QML (I must admit I have only passively looked at the QML examples, but I strongly assume there must be some kind of <button> element). In other words: have a "style" in analogy to QStyle and *.ui widget rendering. And if you REALLY want your app to look the same on every platform: you'd choose the "Qt style" explicitly.
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> Because as someone mentioned in another thread: "We don't want our app to look the same on iPhone as on Android." [as on Symbian as on MeeGo as on...]
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> But first things first, let's see where the Android port etc. is going. And please continue with the QWidget approach on desktop systems: fixed size windows really don't make sense there (except a few cases like games). ;)
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> Cheers,
>  Oliver
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