> On Jan 26, 2014, at 8:10 PM, Robert Knight <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> In regards to users of Mac OS Qt applications: I’m am extremely confident >>> that more Mac OS applications would be/have been written in Qt, >>> if the priority for native looking widget support was higher. Mac OS users >>> are notorious for their attention to detail and noticing a non-native L&F. >>> Forcing application developers to resort to Objective C/Cocoa/style sheet >>> hacks/whatever in order to make the UI look and behave more >>> native sort of defies the notion of a cross platform framework. >> >> Indeed. In terms of diverting resources away from supporting older >> versions of OS X this is probably going be much more compelling for Qt >> users than talk of being able to use C++11, ARC, newer naive APIs etc. >> inside Qt itself. >> >> As an aside, in a company with enough resources to have product >> designers, the designers are highly likely to be using Macs and their >> impressions of Qt apps there tend to carry over to discussions about >> what platforms to base other versions of a cross-platform app on. So >> if Digia want to sell commercial licenses to use Qt on iOS, Android >> etc. investment in Mac L&F may be quite worthwhile. > > So what’s the relationship of that discussion on quality of Qt on OS X, to > the discussion on supporting 10.6 or not? > Dropping support for 10.6, and making it possible to clean up that code, > would in the mid-term free up resources that would make it possible to spend > more resources on better OS X integration in general (or, would make the > existing resources more efficient in doing so)?
It was stated earlier that Mac OS software not being supported by new versions of Qt could just use older Qt versions. As I trid to explain, the earlier versions are either visually not very good looking/lacks some widget features, and Qt5 has serious bugs on the Mac up to 5.2.0. Qt 5.2.0 and down are not very good options if you need a certain set of UI features/care about L&F. However, I understand that a spring cleaning is necessary in order to push the quality on Mac OS.
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