The only two things holding QML back right now are
1) No one except usknows about it.
2) a NSAPI browser plugin.
Both of which would be fixed with a NSAPI browser plugin.
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From: Thiago Macieira <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Friday, September 9, 2011 9:59 AM
Subject: Re: [Qt5-feedback] QML/JS engine in QtCore?
On Friday, 9 de September de 2011 13:05:33 Peter Kuemmel wrote:
> 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.
Everyone who has tried to use QML has said it's much beyond any other
technology in terms of ease of development. I have friends making applications
professionally and that's what they tell me.
And yes, they are doing that on mobile devices...
> 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.
I agree desktop components are necessary. They are being worked on and that's
what the Qt 5 vision is asking for: that we converge on QML for desktop too.
The technology is so great that we (the developer community) see value in
bringing it to the desktop and to all other types of devices.
It's not there yet, we can all see it. That's why QtWidgets is there in Qt 5.0
-- not to mention to ease the transition. But it will be there, some day.
Finally, stop saying "Nokia drops". With the open governance, the community
decides. If someone wants to maintain and improve the widgets, they can. Just
listen to the people currently working on it who say you should think twice:
stability, compatibility, best use of resources, etc. And the vision says we
should try and use QML.
And it's not being dropped. So saying that is technically a lie.
> Isn't desktop support still a creative Friday project? ;)
There haven't been Creative Fridays for over a year now. Research projects are
managed differently.
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