[Qt5-feedback] Scope of QtQuick features?

[Stephen Kelly]

Mihail Naydenov wrote:

> There is nothing in QML by design that prevents it for using it for
> desktop.
> 
> And I mean core QML, not the implemented widgets and Items so far, which
> are biased towards the mobile clearly.

Right. QML the language might be useful on desktop, but existing components 
in QtQuick are biased towards mobile, not desktop. 

Those existing components have influenced the whole framework though of 
course. Imagine people sitting around last year deciding whether to put 
feature X (useful for mobile) or feature Y (useful for desktop) into the 
framework. The design and implementation of the framework is influenced by 
the code that uses it. 

The move to QML being the first port-of-call for implementing new stuff on 
desktop is happening fast (Qt5 is scheduled for next year). I'm wondering if 
there needs to be re-design work with that in mind, or is the current design 
sufficient and flexible enough. 

I haven't tried the scene graph stuff or looked at the code, so I don't know 
the answer to that question and I don't know if work on that is already 
underway. 

If the answer is that the declarative framework is already flexible enough 
and doesn't make undue compromises baised against towards mobile and can 
handle the features people want from a desktop framework, then I'd be 
interested to know that. 

If not, we can start to list what's hard/missing.

Thanks,

Steve.