Please disregard my previous e-mail, actually, delete it if possible. I mean
"Qt Quick Controls 1" rather than "Qt Quick 1".
This e-mail is a better version of [the comments I've
left](https://blog.qt.io/blog/2018/12/06/qt-5-12-lts-released/).
[The release notes for Qt 5.12](https://wiki.qt.io/New_Features_in_Qt_5.12)
worry me quite a little. They say that Qt Quick Controls 1 is deprecated.
There's a single but key reason this is extremely bad news. And this reason is
the lack of native styles in Qt Quick Controls 2. This alone renders Qt Quick
Controls 2 useless for building decent desktop applications. This in turn means
our only option remains Qt Widgets - a piece of technology which is like a
horse carriage. Good for its time but useless in the era of automobiles. The
very notion of suggesting that for desktop development in 2018 we would be
deprived of a simple declarative language for GUI, a flexible scripting
language to match, GPU-based optimizations and all other wonderful features Qt
Quick has to offer - is ridiculous at best. If it's true that Qt Quick Controls
1 is deprecated and Qt Quick Controls 2 won't get native styles any time soon,
this simply means Qt has severely regressed in its offerings to developers.
In addition, I have tracked Qt Quick from its very beginning in 2010 and I
clearly remember you, the Qt developers, advertised Qt Quick as the new
generation of tools and technologies for building graphical user interfaces.
You said Qt Widgets was not (yet) deprecated but fully finished and would
receive few new features and basic optimizations. I hope you will spare me
effort of quotations in support of that above because I think such actions
would be rather ugly. You know what I'm talking about. I see this as an
additional problem to the one described in my first paragraph. You have made a
promise and repeated that promise for years. If Qt Quick Controls 1 is no more
and so are native styles, there's unfortunately one conclusion - that you have
reneged on this promise.
I am asking of the entire community of developers and management of Qt - please
prove me wrong. Please assure me I'm overreacting. Please tell me Qt Quick
Controls 2 is going to get native styles so that we have the outstanding Qt
Quick Controls 2 for the desktop again.
Best regards,
Dimitar Dobrev
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