Re: [Development] [Google Summer of Code] [Project Ideas] Qt Quick Controls 2 Sailfish Silica Style

Hi all, my 2 cents here: >The controls look nice, but my concern is how relevant the Silica style is >these days (in the context of how many people are developing apps for the >Sailfish OS). Sailfish OS become VERY popular in Russia and in Latin America, and for people who wants their data

Re: [Development] [Google Summer of Code] [Project Ideas] Qt Quick Controls 2 Sailfish Silica Style

Hi Alexey. The controls look nice, but my concern is how relevant the Silica style is these days (in the context of how many people are developing apps for the Sailfish OS). For each style we currently have, I would justify their inclusion into qtquickcontrols2.git for the following reasons:

Re: [Development] [Google Summer of Code] [Project Ideas] Qt Quick Controls 2 Sailfish Silica Style

Hi, Aleksey Kontsevich! Thank you for your support, I do agree that Sailfish OS is receiving a huge contribution from Russian speaking developers and focusing on other local markets too. There's also related AsteroidOS community about smartwatches. They have a demo [1] Talking about popularity:

Re: [Development] To improve UX of the online installer

Thanks for your valuable comments and feedback. Please find my comments online > (A) Downloading metadata is very time-consuming. We have recognized the problem as well and considered several options to solve this issue https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTIFW-975. You have excellent points

Re: [Development] To improve UX of the online installer

On 03/04/18 10:10, Edward Welbourne wrote: Jason H (3 April 2018 02:43) wrote: I'm not involved with the installer, but 2 points. 1. Number of gets doesn't really matter as long as it's HTTP 1.1. yeah it's not as optimal as a single compressed download, but it's not terrible. If it's only

Re: [Development] To improve UX of the online installer

On 3 April 2018 at 08:43, Jason H wrote: > I'm not involved with the installer, but 2 points. > 1. Number of gets doesn't really matter as long as it's HTTP 1.1. yeah it's > not as optimal as a single compressed download, but it's not terrible. If > it's only 1.0, then that's a

Re: [Development] To improve UX of the online installer

Hi, Il 03/04/2018 02:14, Sze Howe Koh ha scritto: 3 broad issues impede new users who want to start using Qt and frustrate old users who want to update Qt: (A) Downloading metadata is very time-consuming. (B) The automatic mirror selection algorithm doesn't always pick the best

Re: [Development] [Google Summer of Code] [Project Ideas] Qt Quick Controls 2 Sailfish Silica Style

qpm for Qt is an npm analogue for Node.JS? Cool! --  Best regards, Aleksey Linked in https://www.linkedin.com/in/alekseykontsevich 03.04.2018, 15:42, "Jean-Michaël Celerier" : > If the controls don't end up in qtquickcontrols2, please at least consider >

Re: [Development] [Google Summer of Code] [Project Ideas] Qt Quick Controls 2 Sailfish Silica Style

Jean-Michaël, I've heard about qpm but never used it since I'm perfectly fine with my distro package manager :) But I'm ok to publish it there if we decide not to add the project to qtquickcontrols2 repo, thank you for the hint! 2018-04-03 20:42 GMT+03:00 Aleksey Kontsevich : >

Re: [Development] To improve UX of the online installer

Jason H (3 April 2018 02:43) wrote: > I'm not involved with the installer, but 2 points. > 1. Number of gets doesn't really matter as long as it's HTTP 1.1. yeah it's > not as optimal as a single compressed download, but it's not terrible. If > it's only 1.0, then that's a problem. Why do you