Re: [Qt5-feedback] Concern about removal of QWidget classes

2011-10-11 Thread Andre Somers
Op 10-10-2011 22:58, Иван Комиссаров schreef: Am i correct, that it wouldn't be possible to integrate QDeclarativeView into widget-based app in qt5? I already used such approach, was quite pretty. As I understand it, that worked nicely with Quick 1 (based on QGraphicsView), but not with

Re: [Qt5-feedback] Concern about removal of QWidget classes

2011-10-11 Thread Daniel Mendizabal
The current Qt4 is as simple as changing the target in QtCreator and the application is compiled to the next OS without absolutely any change in your code. Perhaps, but with QWidget your app probably looks bad in mobile platforms making your cross-compatibility of little value for

Re: [Qt5-feedback] Concern about removal of QWidget classes

2011-10-11 Thread Till Oliver Knoll
2011/10/10 Thiago Macieira thi...@kde.org: ... (btw, did anyone say Kontact Touch is a complex app mixing QML and C++?) You mean this one? [Kde-mobile-users] Re: Maemo/N900: KMail Touch very slow and unresponsive [http://www.mail-archive.com/kde-mobile-users@kde.org/msg00122.html etc.] Sorry,

Re: [Qt5-feedback] Concern about removal of QWidget classes

2011-10-11 Thread André Somers
2011/10/11 lars.kn...@nokia.com On 10/11/11 8:18 AM, ext Andre Somers an...@familiesomers.nl wrote: Op 10-10-2011 22:58, Иван Комиссаров schreef: Am i correct, that it wouldn't be possible to integrate QDeclarativeView into widget-based app in qt5? I already used such approach, was quite

Re: [Qt5-feedback] Concern about removal of QWidget classes

2011-10-11 Thread Robin Burchell
2011/10/11 Иван Комиссаров abba...@gmail.com: As i said, i know that they are stay. I need bug fixes, not only for qml and webkit stuff, for whole Qt. All i know that 2 years ago my bugs were fixed, now they don't. You have what boils down to a few choices: - open source support: fix them

Re: [Qt5-feedback] Concern about removal of QWidget classes

2011-10-11 Thread Till Oliver Knoll
2011/10/11 Adriano Rezende adriano.reze...@openbossa.org: ... I'm working in a QML project for desktop that has more than 500 QML files (~ 43 K LOCs). Unfortunately it's under NDA so I cannot say much about it, but it proves that QML can scale if you know how to use your resources. If you

Re: [Qt5-feedback] Concern about removal of QWidget classes

2011-10-11 Thread Adriano Rezende
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Till Oliver Knoll till.oliver.kn...@gmail.com wrote: 2011/10/11 Adriano Rezende adriano.reze...@openbossa.org: ... I'm working in a QML project for desktop that has more than 500 QML files (~ 43 K LOCs). Unfortunately it's under NDA so I cannot say much about

Re: [Qt5-feedback] Concern about removal of QWidget classes

2011-10-11 Thread Georg Rudoy
2011/10/12 Alexander Neundorf neund...@kde.org: On Monday 10 October 2011, Georg Rudoy wrote: But that's the only sane and feasible way of porting big QWidget-based applications to QML. Did I miss something ? Why would I want to do that ? I believe QML has the potential to cover a big part

Re: [Qt5-feedback] Concern about removal of QWidget classes

2011-10-10 Thread Ganshorn Thomas
- Some of the UI in my case are created dynamically either at compile time or at runtime. The former depending on the target platform and the latter depending on the device screen resolution. I don't see this possibility with QML. Why is that? The fact that the UI is declarative in nature

Re: [Qt5-feedback] Concern about removal of QWidget classes

2011-10-10 Thread Robin Burchell
On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 8:30 AM, Ganshorn Thomas maili...@novaimages.de wrote: An addition Try to draw some line diagrams in qml please. HTML5 Canvas no problem. QML ? Please write your own c++ class that you register at qml. two things to note here: #1: it's already been written for you

Re: [Qt5-feedback] Concern about removal of QWidget classes

2011-10-10 Thread jens.bache-wiig
Try to draw some line diagrams in qml please. HTML5 Canvas no problem. QML ? Please write your own c++ class that you register at qml. I had the same reaction last year. Which is why I created: http://qt.gitorious.org/qt-labs/qmlcanvas In Qt 5, html5 Canvas is part of the language. BUT ... how

Re: [Qt5-feedback] Concern about removal of QWidget classes

2011-10-10 Thread Stefan Majewsky
On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 9:13 PM, lars.kn...@nokia.com wrote: Putting QWidgets on top of/inside the scene graph is doable without performance regressions. We haven't done it though. Personally, I consider such an effort top priority if you want people to migrate from QtWidgets to Qt Quick 2. At

Re: [Qt5-feedback] Concern about removal of QWidget classes

2011-10-10 Thread Konstantin Tokarev
10.10.2011, 13:39, Stefan Majewsky stefan.majew...@googlemail.com: On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 9:13 PM,  lars.kn...@nokia.com wrote:  Putting QWidgets on top of/inside the scene graph is doable without  performance regressions. We haven't done it though. Personally, I consider such an effort

Re: [Qt5-feedback] Concern about removal of QWidget classes

2011-10-10 Thread Ville M. Vainio
On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 2:17 PM, Alexis Menard alexis.men...@openbossa.org wrote: BTW, currently folks who need WebKit 2 are actually forced to use QML because no Qt/C++ API exists. This is bullshit based again on not checking out stuff. Dude, git clone WebKit trunk and look the h files are

Re: [Qt5-feedback] Concern about removal of QWidget classes

2011-10-10 Thread Stefan Majewsky
On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 1:23 PM, Alexis Menard alexis.men...@openbossa.org wrote: I think this opens a pandora box just like QGraphicsProxyWidget. People will expect to put anything inside and hope that it will work and get angry when it doesn't (not knowing why it can't work). But if it's

Re: [Qt5-feedback] Concern about removal of QWidget classes

2011-10-10 Thread Kishore Jonnalagadda
On Monday 10 Oct 2011 8:17:19 AM Alexis Menard wrote: Beurk this thread is just about people ranting never tried to use QML or thought about using it as a real alternative or don't even let time for the technology to mature. I write down this date and we will see in 1-2 years when QML will

Re: [Qt5-feedback] Concern about removal of QWidget classes

2011-10-10 Thread Иван Комиссаров
Most of letters from nokia developers that says that QML is great technology mention mobile platforms. Guys, there is NO mobile platforms with Qt… ___ Qt5-feedback mailing list Qt5-feedback@qt.nokia.com

Re: [Qt5-feedback] Concern about removal of QWidget classes

2011-10-10 Thread Quim Gil
On 10/10/2011 09:42 AM, ext Adriano Rezende wrote: On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 11:32 AM, Uwe Rathmannuwe.rathm...@tigertal.de wrote: On Sun, 09 Oct 2011 12:35:12 +0200, Peter Kümmel wrote: Maybe it isn't that bad in Qt because only the GUI is implemented in QML, business logic could still be

Re: [Qt5-feedback] Concern about removal of QWidget classes

2011-10-10 Thread Quim Gil
On 10/10/2011 09:58 AM, ext Иван Комиссаров wrote: Most of letters from nokia developers that says that QML is great technology mention mobile platforms. Just in case you missed it, the opener of this thread expressed his concerns on QWidget vs QML in mobile platforms - and this is the topic

Re: [Qt5-feedback] Concern about removal of QWidget classes

2011-10-10 Thread Иван Комиссаров
Qt is _not_ used for mobile development as i see. In fact, i agree that QWidgets are bad there. But main use-case for qt framework is desktop. Lot of arguments was about limitations of qwidgets and one of the example was mac style. First produce next billion devices (that would be sold), than

Re: [Qt5-feedback] Concern about removal of QWidget classes

2011-10-10 Thread Thiago Macieira
On Monday, 10 de October de 2011 20:58:11 Иван Комиссаров wrote: Most of letters from nokia developers that says that QML is great technology mention mobile platforms. Guys, there is NO mobile platforms with Qt… I think your definition of no platforms is quite a bit restrictive. I've just paid

Re: [Qt5-feedback] Concern about removal of QWidget classes

2011-10-10 Thread vivainio
Be realist, people that get paid to work on Qt mostly get paid with the expectation that Qt will deliver on mobile. Expecting anyone to not care about mobile use cases is not going to fly here. On 10/10/11 8:27 PM Иван Комиссаров wrote: Qt is _not_ used for mobile development as i see. In

Re: [Qt5-feedback] Concern about removal of QWidget classes

2011-10-10 Thread Georg Rudoy
2011/10/10 Adriano Rezende adriano.reze...@openbossa.org: On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 6:39 AM, Stefan Majewsky stefan.majew...@googlemail.com wrote: On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 9:13 PM,  lars.kn...@nokia.com wrote: Putting QWidgets on top of/inside the scene graph is doable without performance

Re: [Qt5-feedback] Concern about removal of QWidget classes

2011-10-10 Thread Thiago Macieira
On Monday, 10 de October de 2011 21:27:42 Иван Комиссаров wrote: Qt is not used for mobile development as i see. In fact, i agree that QWidgets are bad there. But main use-case for qt framework is desktop. Lot of arguments was about limitations of qwidgets and one of the example was mac style.

Re: [Qt5-feedback] Concern about removal of QWidget classes

2011-10-10 Thread Georg Rudoy
2011/10/10 Kishore Jonnalagadda kitts.mailingli...@gmail.com: On Monday 10 Oct 2011 8:17:19 AM Alexis Menard wrote: Beurk this thread is just about people ranting never tried to use QML or thought about using it as a real alternative or don't even let time for the technology to mature. I write

Re: [Qt5-feedback] Concern about removal of QWidget classes

2011-10-10 Thread Frans Klaver
On Mon, 10 Oct 2011 20:05:21 +0200, Иван Комиссаров abba...@gmail.com wrote: But i need bug fixes. Bugs that i reported to Qt bug tracker about TWO YEARS old, some of them with high priority. Even merge requests are waiting for weeks to be reviewed. This is something I think isn't good.

Re: [Qt5-feedback] Concern about removal of QWidget classes

2011-10-10 Thread Adriano Rezende
On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 2:52 PM, Georg Rudoy 0xd34df...@gmail.com wrote: 2011/10/10 Adriano Rezende adriano.reze...@openbossa.org: Supporting QWidget or QGV on top of QtQuick2 would be a huge mistake IMO. It would be a political movement that will not end up well in the long term. If one wants

Re: [Qt5-feedback] Concern about removal of QWidget classes

2011-10-10 Thread Adriano Rezende
On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 4:06 PM, Uwe Rathmann uwe.rathm...@tigertal.de wrote: On Mon, 10 Oct 2011 13:42:11 -0300, Adriano Rezende wrote: I have to disagree, some designers are already using QML/JS for prototyping instead of Flex. Kudos to all of these designers. In my daily work (

Re: [Qt5-feedback] Concern about removal of QWidget classes

2011-10-10 Thread Peter Kümmel
On 10.10.2011 22:22, Frans Klaver wrote: people think the priorities are wrong. That's the point: Priority for Desktop is very low at Nokia. We all see it, feel it, any many old-school desktop develors don't like it. Peter ___ Qt5-feedback

Re: [Qt5-feedback] Concern about removal of QWidget classes

2011-10-10 Thread Georg Rudoy
2011/10/11 Adriano Rezende adriano.reze...@openbossa.org: On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 2:52 PM, Georg Rudoy 0xd34df...@gmail.com wrote: 2011/10/10 Adriano Rezende adriano.reze...@openbossa.org: Supporting QWidget or QGV on top of QtQuick2 would be a huge mistake IMO. It would be a political

Re: [Qt5-feedback] Concern about removal of QWidget classes

2011-10-10 Thread Andre Somers
Op 10-10-2011 18:44, Adriano Rezende schreef: On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 6:39 AM, Stefan Majewsky stefan.majew...@googlemail.com wrote: On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 9:13 PM,lars.kn...@nokia.com wrote: Putting QWidgets on top of/inside the scene graph is doable without performance regressions. We

Re: [Qt5-feedback] Concern about removal of QWidget classes

2011-10-10 Thread Robin Burchell
Hi, 2011/10/10 Иван Комиссаров abba...@gmail.com: But i need bug fixes. Bugs that i reported to Qt bug tracker about TWO YEARS old snip On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 10:31 PM, Peter Kümmel syntheti...@gmx.net wrote: We all see it, feel it, any many old-school desktop develors don't like it.

Re: [Qt5-feedback] Concern about removal of QWidget classes

2011-10-10 Thread Иван Комиссаров
Am i correct, that it wouldn't be possible to integrate QDeclarativeView into widget-based app in qt5? I already used such approach, was quite pretty. 11.10.2011, в 0:36, Andre Somers написал(а): Op 10-10-2011 18:44, Adriano Rezende schreef: On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 6:39 AM, Stefan Majewsky

Re: [Qt5-feedback] Concern about removal of QWidget classes

2011-10-10 Thread Attila Csipa
On Monday 10 October 2011 22:31:54 Peter Kümmel wrote: On 10.10.2011 22:22, Frans Klaver wrote: people think the priorities are wrong. That's the point: Priority for Desktop is very low at Nokia. We all see it, feel it, any many old-school desktop develors don't like it. I also

Re: [Qt5-feedback] Concern about removal of QWidget classes

2011-10-10 Thread Aleix Pol
On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 10:31 PM, Peter Kümmel syntheti...@gmx.net wrote: On 10.10.2011 22:22, Frans Klaver wrote: people think the priorities are wrong. That's the point: Priority for Desktop is very low at Nokia. We all see it, feel it, any many old-school desktop develors

Re: [Qt5-feedback] Concern about removal of QWidget classes

2011-10-09 Thread Peter Kümmel
On 08.10.2011 16:11, Thiago Macieira wrote: On Sunday, 9 de October de 2011 00:00:08 Daniel Mendizabal wrote: - Applications oriented to productivity, utilities, etc. with the only requirement to have the feel and look from the underlying OS and theme will also possibly need more complex

Re: [Qt5-feedback] Concern about removal of QWidget classes

2011-10-09 Thread Thiago Macieira
On Sunday, 9 de October de 2011 10:38:51 Peter Kümmel wrote: Duck typing? Is there any mechanism in QML that guaranties that no run-time errors will happen when the QML script is interpreted? Qt5 will introduce static type checking for signal/slots-connects so no connect could fail at

Re: [Qt5-feedback] Concern about removal of QWidget classes

2011-10-09 Thread Christian Ehrlicher
Am Sonntag, 9. Oktober 2011, 11:31:30 schrieb Thiago Macieira: On Sunday, 9 de October de 2011 10:38:51 Peter Kümmel wrote: Duck typing? Is there any mechanism in QML that guaranties that no run-time errors will happen when the QML script is interpreted? Qt5 will introduce static

Re: [Qt5-feedback] Concern about removal of QWidget classes

2011-10-09 Thread Peter Kümmel
On 09.10.2011 11:31, Thiago Macieira wrote: On Sunday, 9 de October de 2011 10:38:51 Peter Kümmel wrote: Duck typing? Is there any mechanism in QML that guaranties that no run-time errors will happen when the QML script is interpreted? Qt5 will introduce static type checking for

Re: [Qt5-feedback] Concern about removal of QWidget classes

2011-10-09 Thread Peter Kümmel
On 09.10.2011 12:16, Thiago Macieira wrote: On Sunday, 9 de October de 2011 11:49:48 Peter Kümmel wrote: But I have the impression nobody wanna here any critic of QML. Seems all the Trolls have become SCRIPT-KIDDIES, which don't wanna see the advantage of static typed languages. And it seems

Re: [Qt5-feedback] Concern about removal of QWidget classes

2011-10-09 Thread Peter Kümmel
On 09.10.2011 11:41, Christian Ehrlicher wrote: Am Sonntag, 9. Oktober 2011, 11:31:30 schrieb Thiago Macieira: On Sunday, 9 de October de 2011 10:38:51 Peter Kümmel wrote: Duck typing? Is there any mechanism in QML that guaranties that no run-time errors will happen when the QML script is

Re: [Qt5-feedback] Concern about removal of QWidget classes

2011-10-09 Thread jens.bache-wiig
It comes with a lot of tricky methods for something that was very simple before. And on top of the complexity there are some restrictions that I can foresee already: - Multi platform capability isn't as simple anymore: The inclusion of QML components for different platforms make that the source

Re: [Qt5-feedback] Concern about removal of QWidget classes

2011-10-09 Thread Kishore Jonnalagadda
On Oct 9, 2011 4:12 PM, jens.bache-w...@nokia.com wrote: - Some of the UI in my case are created dynamically either at compile time or at runtime. The former depending on the target platform and the latter depending on the device screen resolution. I don't see this possibility with QML. Why is

Re: [Qt5-feedback] Concern about removal of QWidget classes

2011-10-09 Thread Daniel Mendizabal
On Sun, 9 Oct 2011 08:42:20 PM you wrote: It comes with a lot of tricky methods for something that was very simple before. And on top of the complexity there are some restrictions that I can foresee already: - Multi platform capability isn't as simple anymore: The inclusion of QML

Re: [Qt5-feedback] Concern about removal of QWidget classes

2011-10-09 Thread Ganshorn Thomas
Just one thing about autodesk they are releasing already their own version of qt which is NOT compatible with the standard version. I work for the big $$$ special fx industry and i can assure you we are all REALLY affraid Am 08.10.2011 02:42, schrieb craig.sc...@csiro.au: On 08/10/2011, at

Re: [Qt5-feedback] Concern about removal of QWidget classes

2011-10-08 Thread Andre Somers
Op 7-10-2011 10:47, Petr Vanek schreef: On Oct 7, 2011 (Friday), at 10:26 AM, Yves Bailly wrote: Hello all, Le 07/10/2011 09:49, Olivier Goffart a écrit : On Friday 07 October 2011 15:14:33 Daniel Mendizabal wrote: [...] The question is if it this is a good thing to spend time on QWidget.

Re: [Qt5-feedback] Concern about removal of QWidget classes

2011-10-08 Thread Daniel Mendizabal
Note that you can keep your Qt backend intact and plug it to a QML UI with relative ease. This is probably a good idea for mobile apps based on Qt 4 already. I have been reading about using C++ with QML UI, but I don't find it straight forward at all. And the reason is simple, Qt project is

Re: [Qt5-feedback] Concern about removal of QWidget classes

2011-10-08 Thread Thiago Macieira
On Sunday, 9 de October de 2011 00:00:08 Daniel Mendizabal wrote: - Applications oriented to productivity, utilities, etc. with the only requirement to have the feel and look from the underlying OS and theme will also possibly need more complex routines and the classical approach (QWidget/C++)

Re: [Qt5-feedback] Concern about removal of QWidget classes

2011-10-08 Thread Uwe Rathmann
On Sat, 08 Oct 2011 16:11:38 +0200, Thiago Macieira wrote: What data do you have to base your conclusion that QWidget / C++ is more suitable? I can follow the argumentation for using the scene graph instead of QWidget because of technical limitations. But introducing QML instead of C ++ is a

Re: [Qt5-feedback] Concern about removal of QWidget classes

2011-10-07 Thread Olivier Goffart
On Friday 07 October 2011 15:14:33 Daniel Mendizabal wrote: To All, [...] Hi, But what happen now when new mobile phones come with Qt5 without QWidget support? I wonder how the message could have been given so wrong. I'm not speaking for the Qt team. But while Qt team thinks QML is the

Re: [Qt5-feedback] Concern about removal of QWidget classes

2011-10-07 Thread Yves Bailly
Hello all, Le 07/10/2011 09:49, Olivier Goffart a écrit : On Friday 07 October 2011 15:14:33 Daniel Mendizabal wrote: [...] The question is if it this is a good thing to spend time on QWidget. Another question - and sorry if it's stupid, my knowledge of QML is currently close to nothing: can

Re: [Qt5-feedback] Concern about removal of QWidget classes

2011-10-07 Thread Petr Vanek
On Oct 7, 2011 (Friday), at 10:26 AM, Yves Bailly wrote: Hello all, Le 07/10/2011 09:49, Olivier Goffart a écrit : On Friday 07 October 2011 15:14:33 Daniel Mendizabal wrote: [...] The question is if it this is a good thing to spend time on QWidget. Another question - and sorry if it's

Re: [Qt5-feedback] Concern about removal of QWidget classes

2011-10-07 Thread lars.knoll
On 10/7/11 11:18 AM, ext Yves Bailly yves.bai...@sescoi.fr wrote: Le 07/10/2011 10:48, lars.kn...@nokia.com a écrit : On 10/7/11 10:26 AM, ext Yves Baillyyves.bai...@sescoi.fr wrote: [...] Is QML suited in such cases? It's most likely better suited for the task then QWidgets. Only problem

Re: [Qt5-feedback] Concern about removal of QWidget classes

2011-10-07 Thread Till Oliver Knoll
[Accidentally sent in private to wrong recipient, so here again] 2011/10/7 Daniel Mendizabal dan...@darhon.com: ... But what happen now when new mobile phones come with Qt5 without QWidget support? So I want to give my opinion about the QWidget vs QML discussion as well. I already apologise

Re: [Qt5-feedback] Concern about removal of QWidget classes

2011-10-07 Thread Craig.Scott
Feels good to vent it out sometimes, huh? ;) I have some sympathy with some of your points, but I'll restrict myself to a couple of specifics. On 07/10/2011, at 11:27 PM, Till Oliver Knoll wrote: But with the current requirement that even the QWidget based apps now need OpenGL support

Re: [Qt5-feedback] Concern about removal of QWidget classes

2011-10-07 Thread Daniel Mendizabal
On Fri, 7 Oct 2011 10:51:35 PM you wrote: Desktop apps won't be going away any time soon, and there are some rather big commercial companies who would likely make some noise if Qt on desktop was being neglected. Consider Autodesk - they rewrote their Maya package to use Qt for their 2011

Re: [Qt5-feedback] Concern about removal of QWidget classes

2011-10-07 Thread Robin Burchell
Hi, On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 3:44 PM, Daniel Mendizabal dan...@darhon.com wrote: But for the regular purposes and specially for productivity applications the end user is expecting a native look and feel according to its platform and the chosen theme. Any other approach would be even annoying

Re: [Qt5-feedback] Concern about removal of QWidget classes

2011-10-07 Thread Thiago Macieira
Hi Till I'm taking your email as a vent and as a rant. And as such things go, it's full of assumptions based on mistaken facts. Let me see if I can correct some of them. On Friday, 7 de October de 2011 14:27:20 Till Oliver Knoll wrote: A couple of months ago my impression was that QML will

Re: [Qt5-feedback] Concern about removal of QWidget classes

2011-10-07 Thread Olivier Goffart
On Friday 07 October 2011 14:27:20 Till Oliver Knoll wrote: [...] But recently it turned out that the whole paint stack, the scene graph, will be completely rewritten, to favour the QML architecture. The scene graph is a technology that has been writen specifically for QML, If you want to

Re: [Qt5-feedback] Concern about removal of QWidget classes

2011-10-07 Thread Daniel Mendizabal
On Fri, 7 Oct 2011 05:49:36 PM you wrote: But what happen now when new mobile phones come with Qt5 without QWidget support? I wonder how the message could have been given so wrong. I'm not speaking for the Qt team. But while Qt team thinks QML is the technology to use in the future

Re: [Qt5-feedback] Concern about removal of QWidget classes

2011-10-07 Thread Petr Vanek
I agree with all points you listed here. It would be great if some core Qt developers can provide more informations or let's say edification about this all is QML stuff. What does it improve - I mean *really* improve. Now it seems it's just less-doing another syntax for widgets. Maybe

Re: [Qt5-feedback] Concern about removal of QWidget classes

2011-10-07 Thread Uwe Rathmann
On Fri, 07 Oct 2011 14:11:57 +, Uwe Rathmann wrote: We all remember what was wrong with how Qt4 was introduced and I honor, that the developers take care, that this ... Of course I wanted to write: ... won't happen again with Qt5. Sorry, Uwe

Re: [Qt5-feedback] Concern about removal of QWidget classes

2011-10-07 Thread Thiago Macieira
On Friday, 7 de October de 2011 18:34:46 Konstantin Tokarev wrote: 07.10.2011, 17:48, Thiago Macieira: The Qt Quick stack was rewritten. Instead of Graphics View, it sits now on top of the Scene Graph. The QWidget stack wasn't changed. So it will be possible to run old faithful QWidgets

Re: [Qt5-feedback] Concern about removal of QWidget classes

2011-10-07 Thread Thomas McGuire
Hi, On Friday 07 October 2011 15:48:22 Thiago Macieira wrote: That's where you got it wrong. The QWidget implementation does not sit on top of the QML-based Scene Graph. It still uses the old backing store, to the point that there is a class called QBackingStore. The QWidget architecture is

Re: [Qt5-feedback] Concern about removal of QWidget classes

2011-10-07 Thread Robin Burchell
Hi, On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 4:43 PM, Thomas McGuire thomas.mcgu...@kdab.com wrote: OT: The scene graph for QML sounds quite interesting, are there any blogs that compare performance between QML 1 and 2 already? I am especially interested what happens if the target platform doesn't have a GPU.

Re: [Qt5-feedback] Concern about removal of QWidget classes

2011-10-07 Thread Thomas McGuire
Hi, On Friday 07 October 2011 16:49:40 Robin Burchell wrote: On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 4:43 PM, Thomas McGuire thomas.mcgu...@kdab.com wrote: OT: The scene graph for QML sounds quite interesting, are there any blogs that compare performance between QML 1 and 2 already? I am especially

Re: [Qt5-feedback] Concern about removal of QWidget classes

2011-10-07 Thread Quim Gil
Hi Daniel, In short, QWidget has probably a long life in the desktop but in mobile it's fading away fast already in Qt 4.7/4.8 since Qt Quick is just a lot better to obtain a good user experience. We are talking about the UI frontend only, in the backend your Qt code is just as good for any

Re: [Qt5-feedback] Concern about removal of QWidget classes

2011-10-07 Thread Michael Hasselmann
On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 09:55 -0700, Quim Gil wrote: Hi Daniel, In short, QWidget has probably a long life in the desktop but in mobile it's fading away fast already in Qt 4.7/4.8 since Qt Quick is just a lot better to obtain a good user experience. We are talking about the UI frontend

Re: [Qt5-feedback] Concern about removal of QWidget classes

2011-10-07 Thread Till Oliver Knoll
Hello Thiago, hello everyone, I read all messages so far to this subject, but will reply to Thiago's message only for now. It kind of sums it up anyway very nicely. 2011/10/7 Thiago Macieira thi...@kde.org: ... And it turns out that for all these fancy effects we now need OpenGL support to

Re: [Qt5-feedback] Concern about removal of QWidget classes

2011-10-07 Thread Samuel Rødal
On 10/07/2011 06:28 PM, ext Иван Комиссаров wrote: By the way, what about OpenGL painter backend? Can i enable it painting widgets in qt5? (last time i tried to use it, it had some painting bugs) We realized that getting the OpenGL paint engine to render widgets was not going to succeed, in

Re: [Qt5-feedback] Concern about removal of QWidget classes

2011-10-07 Thread Samuel Rødal
On 10/07/2011 07:29 PM, ext Till Oliver Knoll wrote: Hello Thiago, hello everyone, I read all messages so far to this subject, but will reply to Thiago's message only for now. It kind of sums it up anyway very nicely. 2011/10/7 Thiago Macieirathi...@kde.org: ... And it turns out that for

Re: [Qt5-feedback] Concern about removal of QWidget classes

2011-10-07 Thread Peter Kümmel
Hi Till, good to know there are others who are skeptical about QML. But the QWidget time is over at Nokia. Someone else has to care about. I assume at Nokia the briefing is we will not waste any time or money for QWidget like stuff, someone else should do. But we are accustomed to rely on

Re: [Qt5-feedback] Concern about removal of QWidget classes

2011-10-07 Thread Christian Ehrlicher
Am Freitag, 7. Oktober 2011, 20:32:13 schrieb Peter Kümmel: Hi Till, good to know there are others who are skeptical about QML. But the QWidget time is over at Nokia. Someone else has to care about. I assume at Nokia the briefing is we will not waste any time or money for QWidget like

Re: [Qt5-feedback] Concern about removal of QWidget classes

2011-10-07 Thread Thiago Macieira
On Friday, 7 de October de 2011 20:08:55 Samuel Rødal wrote: Agreed, animating stuff, drawing custom widgets etc. is indeed much easier in QML. But to repeat: I don't want to animate, I don't want custom widgets (and I am talking about the ordinary and typical user interface elements such

Re: [Qt5-feedback] Concern about removal of QWidget classes

2011-10-07 Thread Konstantin Tokarev
07.10.2011, 22:59, Thiago Macieira: My sending of a screenshot of a Qt-based KDE screenshot of 14 years ago is to show that UIs change quite a lot. The change is constant, it's not one major change at a fixed point in time. BTW, some people still use KDE 2 (OpenSUSE still packages it), and

Re: [Qt5-feedback] Concern about removal of QWidget classes

2011-10-07 Thread lars.knoll
On 10/7/11 3:53 PM, ext Daniel Mendizabal dan...@darhon.com wrote: On Fri, 7 Oct 2011 05:49:36 PM you wrote: But what happen now when new mobile phones come with Qt5 without QWidget support? I wonder how the message could have been given so wrong. I'm not speaking for the Qt team. But

Re: [Qt5-feedback] Concern about removal of QWidget classes

2011-10-07 Thread lars.knoll
Could be there are some bugs in that right now, but yes, that is a goal. Lars On 10/7/11 6:28 PM, ext Иван Комиссаров abba...@gmail.com wrote: By the way, what about OpenGL painter backend? Can i enable it painting widgets in qt5? (last time i tried to use it, it had some painting bugs)

Re: [Qt5-feedback] Concern about removal of QWidget classes

2011-10-07 Thread Petr Vanek
On Oct 7, 2011 (Friday), at 9:13 PM, lars.kn...@nokia.com wrote: Hi Till, let me also add some of my comments here. What I'm seeing here is lots of fears that I don't believe are rooted in reality. Did you try to compile Qt5 and run the Qt5 Designer lately? I have done it what is the

Re: [Qt5-feedback] Concern about removal of QWidget classes

2011-10-07 Thread lars.knoll
On 10/7/11 7:29 PM, ext Till Oliver Knoll till.oliver.kn...@gmail.com wrote: Oh, but you're forgetting that the UIs of the future will be like that because customers are demanding it and others are driving it! So you want to keep your UIs as they are... Let's say you had kept them as they

Re: [Qt5-feedback] Concern about removal of QWidget classes

2011-10-07 Thread lars.knoll
On 10/7/11 9:20 PM, ext Petr Vanek p...@scribus.info wrote: On Oct 7, 2011 (Friday), at 9:13 PM, lars.kn...@nokia.com wrote: Hi Till, let me also add some of my comments here. What I'm seeing here is lots of fears that I don't believe are rooted in reality. Did you try to compile Qt5

Re: [Qt5-feedback] Concern about removal of QWidget classes

2011-10-07 Thread Craig.Scott
On 08/10/2011, at 6:07 AM, Harri Porten wrote: On Fri, 7 Oct 2011, craig.sc...@csiro.au wrote: Desktop apps won't be going away any time soon, and there are some rather big commercial companies who would likely make some noise if Qt on desktop was being neglected. Were and how will