It seems the whole world is going "mobile computing" nuts!! http://www.osnews.com/story/24713/Nokia_Announces_Qt_5_Plans
My thoughts on pushing those "mobile computing" UI interfaces into the desktop application space is rather negative. eg: Unity in Ubuntu, Gnome Shell in Gnome 3 - clearly all designs from the mobile touch screen devices - not so good on the desktop though. Lets hope that Qt 5's default graphics engine that requires OpenGL and forces developers to use Javascript instead for app development, doesn't affect desktop application developers too much. At least there is a mention of the QWidget-style API still hanging around for some time - but not there main focus any more. Good news is that at least this time they are going to try and make the upgrade from Qt 4 to Qt 5 less painful (remember the move from Qt3 to Qt4?). So the Lazarus LCL-Qt developers should be happy with that. BTW: To those Lazarus LCL-Qt developers. Kudos for a job well done! I have recently compiled my Lazarus 0.9.30.x IDE with the LCL-Qt interface and it works and looks very good so far. Regards, - Graeme - -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://fpgui.sourceforge.net/ -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
