On Thu, 26 Sep 2013 14:13:33 -0400, K. Frank wrote: > Did this "detour" (for lack of a better word) end up being helpful?
Nokia was not interested in the desktop and the previous user base. IMHO this had 3 effects: a) LGPL Good and bad: the business case of selling support licenses is dead ( almost all Qt developers are payed ), what is IMO one of the reasons behind the missing resources. b) Symbian Only bad - nobody was interested beside Nokia - and has been removed again with Qt5. c) QML No migration path from C++/Widgets with the result, that almost all existing projects are not interested. With Qt 5.1 QML might have become an option for a desktop application - but to be honest I never heard of one. The existence of 2 different systems is a problem of itself. The development is working on the QML side, while the majority of the user base is doing widgets. For me as an author of a 3rd party lib it means I have to deal with 2 different platforms. The opposite of "code once ..." what used to be the mantra of Qt in the TrollTech days. Uwe _______________________________________________ Interest mailing list Interest@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest
