> > 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).

Fulltime or not, something should happen, but ATM nothing happens.

> 
> > > 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.
> 

Sure non-GUI improvements are welcome, but having no progress on 
desktop GUI elements for years (4.2? until 5.2?) decreases my 
interest in Qt.

Peter

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