I agree and I and probably other people will be glad in helping out developing these widgets, now where do we find a designer ? :)
On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 11:31 AM, Artur Souza (MoRpHeUz) < [email protected]> wrote: > Hello Radu, > > On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 5:03 AM, Radu - Ionut Kurta > <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm curios if for qt5 would it be possible to implement some sort of > desktop > > components like the ones available now for qml but mimic > > the metro look of windows 8 for usage on windows(and if possible maybe on > > also desktop platforms). > > Yes, there is nothing preventing us (you included :) ) to do that and > probably at some point the community is going to implement that. > > Besides having that, what I would really like is that we have a > "component set" (at some point in the future I would like to be able > to start calling them "widgets" again, as this is what they are) that > is the same on all platforms. > > So, from my point of view we would have: > > 1 - platform specific qml widgets (I don't care if technically the > desktop widgets share the same implementation and use the QStyle API > to draw them the way they should be - that's actually a good way to > go); > > 2 - The "Qt set" (that ideally would be qt's default offer - that > works on all the platforms, enabling us to write applications that > would behave and look like the same on all platforms). > > IMHO, number 2 is important to allow Qt developers to easily write > cross platform applications without the need to be bounded to specific > platform-widget API/behavior. For example, one would be able to write > an application that would run on linux/windows/osx, knowing that this > widget set would be available in all of them. Of course, the developer > wouldn't be able to use any platform specific API. > > Ah, it's worth mentioning that these widgets should be designed and > draw by real designers and not by us (developers). Even if we think > that we have designer skills, we don't ;) > > Cheers, > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------- > Artur Duque de Souza > openBossa > INdT - Instituto Nokia de Tecnologia > ------------------------------------------------------- > Blog: http://blog.morpheuz.cc > PGP: 0xDBEEAAC3 @ wwwkeys.pgp.net > ------------------------------------------------------- > -- My programs never have bugs, they just develop random features. -- C/C++ ... I don't see a huge difference between them, and the 'benefits' of C++ are questionable, who needs inheritance when you have copy and paste. -- C++ doesn't try to make it impossible for bad programmers to write bad programs; it enables reasonable developers to create superior software.
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