kqmlgraphplugin -- a QML plugin to render beautiful and interactive graphs

Albert Astals Cid aacid at kde.org
Tue Jan 28 20:56:14 GMT 2014


El Dimarts, 28 de gener de 2014, a les 19:47:59, Kevin Krammer va escriure:
> On Tuesday, 2014-01-28, 11:51:06, Sebastian Gottfried wrote:
> > Hi David,
> > 
> > > I don't want to start a naming bikeshed so if it is already too late
> > 
> > > to consider renaming, just dismiss these comments:
> > No, that's still okay. Nothing is set in stone yet.
> > 
> > > The first thing I thought of when I read the name of the plugin is
> > > that it did graph rendering, like OGDF QML[0], and I was in desperate
> > > need for such a library a couple of months ago. I think graph is
> > > confusing for a couple of reasons:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > * There is already a concept of graphs associated to QML, as in QML
> > > Graph Scene (which is apparently the most common result I get from
> > > searching "QML Graph")
> > 
> > Never thought about that.
> > 
> > > * In KDE, Rocs deals with Graphs and KmPlot deals with these kinds of
> > > graphs. * There is a Qt Charts[1] thing that does something similar.
> > > 
> > > So I would consider renaming this to something with plot/chart.
> > 
> > I like charts better and would consider renaming it to kqmlchartsplugin.
> > The QML import would be 'org.kde.charts' then.
> > 
> > Are there any more opinions on the naming issue?
> 
> If this uses QtQuick I would suggest that it be part of the name.
> 
> QML is a more generic term, used for thing that can be used by a QML engine.
> Usually components without UI, like data sources, sensors, models, timers
> etc. Things that can be used outside a UI context or with any UI component
> set (QtQuick, Cascasdes, Widgets and so on).

+1 QML is the language, QtQuick is the "toolkit"

Cheers,
  Albert

> 
> Cheers,
> Kevin





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