qqc2-desktop-style as framework

[Eike Hein]

Hi,

from my perspective as app dev: As it currently stands I can only get
proper desktop scrolling by either shipping an app-specific hack or by
forcing Marco's style. The only way I can reasonably force it is if I
can also depend on it, and if it's a framework, I can depend on it in
CMake, causing packagers (including e.g. Windows) to roll it in. So
I'd +1.


Cheers,
Eike


On 09/01/2017 12:06 AM, Marco Martin wrote:
> Hi all,
> we have a qtquickcontrols style that is right now in workspace (unrelased, to 
> be released with Plasma 5.11)
> it makes controls paint with qstyle to give it a reasonable desktop 
> appearance, plus some fixes/workarounds to make qml a bit more desktop friendly 
> (for instance fixes scrollwheel issues with Flickable)
> sice it's pretty much untenable to make a desktop application with 
> QtQuickControls2 without it and make it look anything near "native", so 
> releasing it together plasma is probably not enough.
> Applications using kirigami should be able to explicitly depend from it if 
> they want, to require a native-looking look and feel on linux desktops (even 
> on gnome would look already marginally better than with the stock "universal" 
> or "material" styles)
> 
> it's a thing with no api, no libraries (not even an import, qqc2 styles work a 
> bit differently), so as with kirigami only source compatibility on the qml-
> side will matter
> 
> any objection into pulling it into a framework? anything particular for the 
> procedure?
>