Re: [Development] some questions about QtGamePad

2016-02-16 Thread Nichols Andy
Hi Matthew, I do appreciate the feedback and suggestions for the API as it is now. I’m sorry if my mail came off as obstructionist as it was not intended in this way. Since this is a Qt API I want it to be both useful and easy to use. I conceded that the current API is limited to the

Re: [Development] some questions about QtGamePad

2016-02-15 Thread Nichols Andy
Hi Matthew, Pritam, et alia QtGamepad is intentionally limited to gamepads, and does not include support for joysticks, or generic devices with an arbitrary number of axes/buttons. The design was primarily inspired by the HTML 5 gamepad API:

Re: [Development] Nominating Samuli Pippo for Approver status

2015-12-02 Thread Nichols Andy
+1 from me as well Andy Nichols On 02 Dec 2015, at 15:13, Agocs Laszlo > wrote: Hello, I would like to nominate Samuli Piippo for Approver status in the Qt Project. Samuli has been working on Qt's Embedded Linux support and

Re: [Development] Nominating Pasi Petäjäjärvi for Approver status

2015-11-24 Thread Nichols Andy
I would like to nominate Pasi Petäjäjärvi for Approver status in the Qt Project. Pasi is the maintainer of the VxWorks port and has also been contributing a lot for other embedded platforms over the years. +1 from me as well. Great to have more embedded experts as approvers ;-) Regards, Andy

Re: [Development] Nominating Pier Luigi Fiorini (plfiorini) as an Approver

2015-07-15 Thread Nichols Andy
On 14 Jul 2015, at 16:37, Robin Burchell robin...@viroteck.net wrote: Hi, I would like to nominate plfiorini for Approver status. Would anyone like to second? +1 from me as well -- Andy Nichols ___ Development mailing list

Re: [Development] Introducing Qt Gamepad, a new qt-labs project

2015-05-13 Thread Nichols Andy
On 13 May 2015, at 01:04, Christian Gagneraud chg...@gna.orgmailto:chg...@gna.org wrote: Any chance QtGamepad would provide support for devices like the SpaceNavigator (3D mouse) [1]? I recently posted a question about this on this mailing list [2]. These 3D mice send events for translation and

[Development] Introducing Qt Gamepad, a new qt-labs project

2015-05-12 Thread Nichols Andy
You may have noticed if you religiously watch #qt-labs or just poke around on code.qt.io page that a new project has recently been added to qt-labs. QtGamepad is a spare-time / creative Friday project that I've been playing with on-and-off since 2012. Some of you may have seen the first

Re: [Development] Adding new third party component three.js to Qt?

2015-01-20 Thread Nichols Andy
Hi Pasi, We have already forked and currently maintain a separate fork of three.js that is compatible with Qt3dCanvas so including that fork’s code as included 3rd party source code seems like the obvious thing to do. You have my support in doing this. We should not optimise for what makes

Re: [Development] The dark side of QtMultimedia

2014-11-16 Thread Nichols Andy
Hi Gianluca, But, what would be the solutions ?!?! That is still up for discussion. The ideal solution would be more contributors and a clear mandate to fix the existing issues. Right now we have neither. The problem is that there is no clear evidence of development planning and

Re: [Development] The dark side of QtMultimedia

2014-11-15 Thread Nichols Andy
Hi Kevin and others, I still think that this discussion has derailed. I do not think Phonon is the solution to fix or replace QtMultimedia so I hope to make this clear so we can move on to a real solution. The current state of Phonon is thus: Phonon is part of the KDE project and is licensed

Re: [Development] The dark side of QtMultimedia

2014-11-08 Thread Nichols Andy
Hi Massimo et alia, I am well aware you guys do your best to provide a quality cross-platform framework and so far you did an excellent job ! Unfortunately I cannot say such thing for the Qt Multimedia module. If you stick to the provided examples (properly tailored to hide all the bugs) they

Re: [Development] Platform maintainers

2014-09-26 Thread Nichols Andy
Hi everyone, And you're right, the last time Andy reviewed anything in qtwayland was February/2014. This sounds much more in line with reality. So, Andy, are you coming back? Or do you want to step down for someone else? It is true that I have not had much time to devote to QtWayland

[Development] QtWayland QtCS Session

2014-06-12 Thread Nichols Andy
I’ve posted my notes from the QtWayland session at QtCS2014 here: http://qt-project.org/groups/qt-contributors-summit-2014/wiki/QtCS2014_QtWayland Please feel free to edit the page if there is something I missed in my notes. Regards, Andy Nichols ___

Re: [Development] Mac app built with Qt5.3.0 RC got rejected by Mac App Store because of non-public API calls.

2014-05-15 Thread Nichols Andy
Regard QtWebkit on iOS: Source http://qt-project.org/qt5/qt52#ios Qt WebKit is also not supported under Qt for iOS and because of App Store policies, it will not be supported either. For now, you need to use the native WebKit in iOS. This can be done by using the native Objective-C libraries,

Re: [Development] No SSL on iOS ?

2014-04-28 Thread Nichols Andy
Hi Martin, I have installed qt-opensource-mac-x64-ios-5.3.0-beta.dmg and while compiling my app, I get: no member named 'sslConfiguration' in 'QNetworkReply' which is happening when QT_NO_SSL is defined - which seems to be the case in qconfig.h: #if defined(QT_NO_OPENSSL)

[Development] Nominating Giulio Camuffo (giucam) as an Approver

2014-04-01 Thread Nichols Andy
Hello fellow Qt developers, I would like to nominate Giulio Camuffo for Qt Project approver status. Giulio has been contributing to the QtWayland module for over a year now with both quality code submissions as well as code reviews. He is easy to get in touch with on IRC, and is responsive when

Re: [Development] Qt Wayland versioning

2014-01-04 Thread Nichols Andy
Hi Tomasz, Yes you are correct. As of last week we now depend on qtbase/stable in qtwayland/stable so the version number does need to be changed now. We are a bit out of sync now with regard to following dev and stable with the rest of Qt (despite using those names) but that can be resolved

Re: [Development] Nominating Andrew Knight (aknight) for Approver

2013-08-30 Thread Nichols Andy
I'd like to nominate aknight for approver status. Andrew has been doing some solid work that I've noted in QtWayland (and with wayland in general), and also appears to have some solid knowledge of Windows from his dashboard: https://codereview.qt-project.org/#dashboard,1001190. Also useful:

[Development] QtWayland: current state and roadmap

2013-03-22 Thread Nichols Andy
Greetings fellow Qt developers, I would like to say a little bit about the current state of the QtWayland project and the current roadmap. Today the QtWayland repository was split into the stable and dev branches following the convention of other Qt modules. There is no release branch yet

Re: [Development] QtGraphicalEffects

2013-01-15 Thread Nichols Andy
Hi Thomas, is anyone feeling somewhat responsible for QtGraphicalEffects? I got 2 commit I would like to push. It's not on codereview, is it? It is: https://codereview.qt-project.org/#q,project:qt/qtgraphicaleffects,n,z (...by the way: where do I find a list of projects on codereview?) There

Re: [Development] qtwayland on i.mx6

2013-01-08 Thread Nichols Andy
On Jan 8, 2013, at 3:53 PM, Keller Alexander-B42067 b42...@freescale.commailto:b42...@freescale.com wrote: I have tried to your solution, but it did not work. I have created a pkgconfig file for wayland-egl. (I attached the pkgconfig file in the email) However, when configured qtwayland it

Re: [Development] accelerated video hardware playback status and qt5

2013-01-08 Thread Nichols Andy
Hi, what is the status and the planning for qt5 accelerated video playback : on Windows (It seems that there was some work around dxva/Angle playback) Linux : Gstreamer? Mac : ? And android (I suppose for now that there is no video support) On Mac 10.7+ using the AVFoundation media player

Re: [Development] qtwayland on i.mx6

2013-01-08 Thread Nichols Andy
/home/alexander/qtwayland/src/compositor/compositor_api/compositor_api.pri:15: 'qtHaveModule' is not a recognized test function. Project ERROR: Package egl not found make[1]: *** [sub-compositor-install_subtargets] Error 3 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/alexander/qtwayland/src' make: ***

Re: [Development] qtwayland on i.mx6

2013-01-04 Thread Nichols Andy
Hi Alexander, I have been trying to cross compile qtwayland to run on the i.mx6. I have been able to successfully build qt5, but after running the qmake and try to build qtwayland I get this error. .obj/release-shared/wlcompositor.o: In function

Re: [Development] Stepping down as the maintainer of QtWayland

2012-10-26 Thread Nichols Andy
I'm stepping down as the maintainer of QtWayland, as I don't have time to ensure that QtWayland is in top notch shape. I would like to propose Andy Nichols as the new maintainer. I would be happy to accept the position of maintainer for the QtWayland module. It is quite sad to hear that

Re: [Development] qtwayland module fails to build for Raspberry Pi

2012-10-17 Thread Nichols Andy
Hi, I've tested with 0.99 yesterday ... I had multiple API-incompatible-errors: error: 'wl_display_bind' was not declared in this scope error: ‘wl_display_add_global_listener’ was not declared in this scope error: too many arguments to function ‘int wl_display_get_fd(wl_display*) …