[Qt-interest] [Interest] QML on the desktop? It's reality!

Pritam Ghanghas pritam_ghanghas at infosys.com
Mon Oct 24 14:59:12 CEST 2011



On Mon, 2011-10-24 at 17:49 +0530, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> On Monday, 24 de October de 2011 12.14.47, Till Oliver Knoll wrote:
> > Anyway, the default Ubuntu desktop, -Unity-, is using Gtk3 to render
> > its widgets, on top of Compiz. That requires hardware (OpenGL)
> > support. If that is not available the fallback is to use Unity 2D,
> > which is apparently implemented with Qt/QML (on top of something else
> > which I can't remember right now; see Ars). And that was new to me.
> 
> It's actually Clutter, not Gtk3.

I think they replaced clutter with another openGL library Nux.
I dont know what benefits that brought for them.


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Regards,
Pritam


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