On Wednesday, 21 de September de 2011 17:47:30 Peter Kuemmel wrote: > > Don't mix things. No one said desktop support is Done. The QWidget > > infrastructure is Done. > > This is what I have meant with: 'Done' (QWidget)
That may be, but it's not what you said before.
> > So if it comes with a Digia-supported Desktop Components, you won't be
> > happy?
> >
> > Stop thinking about Nokia terms. What's important is that the
> > technology exists and someone is backing it up.
>
> OK, but it is important that there are some fulltime developers.
Why? Why are 2 full-time developers better than 20 part-time ones?
I'd love to have full-time developers working on this, but I'll take what I
can get. Besides, if you look at any feature over a reasonably long period of
time (6 months or more), there isn't a single one that has a full-time
developer. All developers multiplex between features.
Did you mean full-time equivalents? 20 developers devoting 10% of their time
is equivalent to 2 FTEs (in theory, of course).
> > Maybe you'll volunteer to maintain the widget classes and bring it
> > back up from Done to Maintained?
>
> Have to think about it.
>
> My main concern is to make Qt again more attractive for
> desktop development. Most Qt developers came to Qt because
> of desktop support, but since several releases nearly nothing
> happens. A new Qt release isn't interesting any more
> for desktop developers.
And it's mine too. Except my strategy isn't to continue to add features to the
widget classes, but to make QML on desktop a first-class feature.
And you make it sound like desktop developers are *only* interested about
widgets. Improvements in performance in QObject aren't interesting? The new
improved file engine? How about new networking features? QtSql also had a
number of bugfixes... Not to mention, of course, QtWebKit 2.2 for the hybrid
application development.
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