On 4/1/13 5:05 PM, "Thiago Macieira" <[email protected]> wrote:
>On segunda-feira, 1 de abril de 2013 13.22.57, Tvete Paul wrote: >> The missing feature, which was regrettably not picked up during the >> Components API review, has been part of Qt from the very beginning. To >> underline its importance, consider that it was added to Qt before >> fonts and text rendering. I have therefore submitted the new >> component to gerrit, and hope the CI system will not cause >> too many problems. https://codereview.qt-project.org/52659 > >Hi Paul > >Haven't you got the story mixed up? I know you were there in those days, >but >from what I've been told, the LCD widget was added *because* Qt had no >text >rendering and we needed a way to show the score in the tetris game. So >yes, it >pre-dated text rendering, but there's a causal relationship. > >In any case, I'm all for feature completeness and capturing the desktop >experience in QML. Therefore, I support this change. Yet, I have to >insist >that we hear from Lars before accepting it. I've discussed this with Paul before, and we agree that feature parity between widgets and Qt Quick Controls is extremely important. But I think Frederik has a good point. We try to get away from abbreviated names in Qt, so let's give at least the QML type a proper (non abbreviated) name. Cheers, Lars _______________________________________________ Development mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
