Fwd: Re: OpenGL support and alpha 3 schudle

[Thomas Senyk]

Hi Folks,

I'm going to merge experimental-eglfs into experimental.

I guess this is a bigger merge (please wish me luck ;)
If anyone else has something big to commit/merge we could sync to discuss who 
goes first. I mainly touch the src/plugins/platforms/android



There are still things to discuss before we do a release with this:

In the end we will have one plugin (as in one .so-file) for raster and opengl
The entry point (QAndroidPlatformIntegrationPlugin) will return the same 
QAndroidPlatformIntegration for both but give it a boolean to choose what to 
do for there on.
(In short: QAndroidPlatformIntegration is the crossroad for opengl vs. raster)

QAndroidPlatformIntegrationPlugin will provide 2 platforms:
-platform android      (raster, as it is now) and a new one:
-platform androidGL

I'm not sure how this is done on other embedded platforms but I think we 
should but developer-choose which platform he wants to use into qtcreator and 
store that decision somehow in the package

So somewhere in qtcreator we should add a "Use OpenGL"-checkbox
   ... and for some projects we might want to enable it per default 
(e.g: Declarative-Projects)

I know people are going to use it although it's not the right thing for there 
projects!
How do we warn/inform them when/why it's god/bad to click this checkbox?
We need to warn/inform! If we don't we end up with a lot of complains (from 
developers and users) that even simple applications take a lot of performance, 
worth unreasonable amount of battery and even more worth not everything is 
working probably (e.g.: drop-down-boxes)


Greets
Thomas

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Subject: Re: OpenGL support and alpha 3 schudle
Date: Thursday, June 30, 2011, 07:03:41 PM
From: ext BogDan <bog_dan_ro at yahoo.com>
To: Thomas Senyk <thomas.senyk at nokia.com>

> 

> Most things are working.
> Thuesday I did a code-cleanup.
> 
> The only thing left is to intregrate it into the "normal" plugin.
> 
> So in the end you got 1 plugin and (on platforms who support it) you get 2 
> different platforms:
> 
> -platform android
> -platform androidGL
> 
> I think this is the way to go.
> This is how the xlib plugins does it and I guess the wayland-plugin will do 
it 
> that way eventually.
> 
> Do you agree?
>

I agree. Please let me know if you need me to help you to merge your work 
with 
current plugin, because this two plugins should share a lot of code.

>  
> If so I would take the current HEAD of everything.
> (qt: experimental  ; qt-creator: testing )
> 
> Integrate eglfs, do testing and then push it.
> 
> 
> I'm not sure if I'm going to copy the files or merge the branches.
> I'm a little bit afraid of merge-hell ;)
> 

:) Is up to you ! 

> If you (or someone else) wants to push something bigger bevor I merge/commit 
> let me know and I'll wait
> 

No big change from me, but I recommend you to post a message on mail list, 
maybe other guy have something ....

> 
> Greets
> Thomas
> 
> 
> On Thursday, June 30, 2011 10:42:42 AM ext BogDan wrote:
>>  Hi Thomas,
>> 
>>  I want to create planned features for alpha 3 and expected schedule. 
>>  Because I your work is the most important feature for that release I want
>>  to sync with you to know the current progress. I managed to
>>  finish QDesktopServices and assets support,  I need a few day to finish
>>  also QSystemTrayIcon, after, I can join you to finish OpenGL
>>  implementation (if you need my help:) ). 
>> 
>>  Cheers,
>>  BogDan.
>

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