> > 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
And there is still no mainstream device which uses Qt (only some "beta" quality MeeGo tablets). So QML is a Nokia/Symbian only story, and in some years there are only low-end phones with Symbian and smartphones with Windows. Maybe then QML is not interesting any more to Nokia and is dropped. > 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? Without fully supporting QML for desktop applications, there always will be widget-based apps. The best way to promote QML would have been to provide great desktop QML elements, but Nokia only drops widgets and thinks this is the best way to convince desktop-app developers. > > 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. Isn't desktop support still a creative Friday project? ;) Peter > > 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 -- NEU: FreePhone - 0ct/min Handyspartarif mit Geld-zurück-Garantie! Jetzt informieren: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/freephone _______________________________________________ Qt5-feedback mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt.nokia.com/mailman/listinfo/qt5-feedback
