Hi, On Thursday 08 September 2011 13:25:10 Bjørn Erik Nilsen wrote: > On 9/8/11 12:59 PM, ext Peter Kuemmel wrote: > > JS in QtCore is not needed in headless embedded software. > > But it would be a reason to not use Qt in such a project if JS couldn't > > be disabled. > > Exactly. It would be a good reason to not use *Qt5* in such a project. > Qt4 is more suitable for that use case.
No one sane would use an unmaintained library, which Qt4 will be once Qt5 is there. People will not use Qt4 in these cases, they will just use an entirely different library. And frankly, I don't buy the argument that everyone will use QML in the future. Nokia is focused on QML and mobile use cases right now, so they probably see it as important. Touch interfaces will indeed be much more important in the future, especially with the advance of tablets, still there will always be traditional widget-based applications, and I think a huge number of Qt developers are either ignoring or underestimating their importance. I have used QML in embedded touch-based projects and I think it is a really nice fit for them, and I enjoy working with QML. However, I don't think QML is a good fit for traditional applications. Are you porting QtCreator to QML? If not, why not? There will be many people still wanting to develop widget-based applications. With people talking about deprecating everything widget-related and moving the QML interpreter to QtCore, I fear the widget part of Qt is being neglected. Please keep the widget-based UI as a first-class citizen in Qt, that is one of its big strengths and also a big userbase. Just my 2 cents. Regards, Thomas
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