Hello, First and foremost congrats for Qt5 alpha release, it is great to see Qt moving forward. Back in December I tried to merge current android port but I quickly gave up because Qt 5 didn't seem to be too stable and it didn't had all the features I was looking for[1], these days I briefly check Qt5 source code and most of the features are in place except a just few which are not there, IMHO these features are very important and they will make the difference between a good port and a great port. I'll highlight the most important two of them:
- platform menu APIs. Current APIs are not enough for Android platform (same for Mac OSX?), I need a way to *manage* from platform plagin the menubar and the context menus, meaning that Qt must show/hide the menu(bar) using the platform plugin. There where two proposals [2], [3] which, at first sight, seems to be what I'm looking for, but they have been abandoned for months, is there any reason why not pushing them forward ? - platform theme APIs, current APIs are good but not enough, BTW "KeyboardSchemes" enum doesn't seems to used and IMHO doesn't contain very cross platform values :). For several months I struggle to create a style plugin for Android, I manage to create the support for a few classic widgets and I found that the work I did can not be used also for QML ones. I believe it is a huge waste of time to do the same job twice in two different ways. IMHO both QML and classic widgets should use a single theme manager to draw the widgets, of course every single platform should be able to create its own implementation. Android has a pretty good theme manager implementation, which is flexible enough and lets the user to overwrite almost all theme attributes, I really love to see something BETTER in Qt ! IMHO these features are too important to miss the opportunity to include them in Qt5.0. Kindly please consider to include these features in final Qt5.0, I don't know if it will be a second chance to include them without any compromise, without not worry about API/ABI compatibility. Thank you ! Kind regards, BogDan. [1] http://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/development/2011-December/001028.html [2] http://codereview.qt-project.org/#change,11954 [3] http://codereview.qt-project.org/#change,17906 _______________________________________________ Development mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
