[Qt-interest] Clarification on "out of scope" closed bug

[Thiago Macieira]

On Wednesday, 19 de January de 2011 07:55:58 Andre Somers wrote:
> Auch!
> How is that for being able to count on Qt as a stable platform?

It's "we make mistakes"

> QGraphicsProxyWidget has been introduced in 4.4, released in the first
> half of 2008. That is less than 3 years ago. And now, you tell your
> users that what they have come to rely on is suddenly not supported
> anymore? There is no "depricated" label to be found for that class.

I didn't say it is not supported. I said you're better off not using it. It's 
horribly slow and will kill your graphics view performance. It's not something 
we can optimise further because it's a flawed design.

The bug report the OP posted was just a symptom of that fact. It's also being 
honest: the priority for fixing the issue the OP reported was so low that it's 
fair to say it won't get done. That way, if someone else
has a fix, please go 
ahead for it.

> What are the promises made by Sebastian Nyström at the 2010 DevDays that
> investments in the desktop area would not go down worth, if this is what
> happens in practice? [1] Can we rely on QML being supported three years
> from now, or will we again need redo our components in the next great,
> yet immature, Qt technology again to expect to work against supported code?

We're supporting desktops, sure. But we're not going to add features to a 
subsystem that is known to be broken.

> I really love working with Qt, but I really don't like the way users
> with existing investments in Qt seem to be left in the cold because
> their little corner is not the next hot thing any more.
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