(Necessitas is NOT...) on Widgets and QMLL

[Harri Pasanen]

Well, I for one would prefer QML component  inclusion even if Android
look and feel would be less than complete.

I do have existing applications with Qt widgets, but as Nokia/upstream 
has moved on,
I don't think there is anything to do but follow.

Qt widgets did have number of issues with mobile devices and touch 
interaction,
so for good experience you were forced to write custom widgets anyway.
Those on the other hand are usually easy to port for use in QML and writing
small widgets in pure QML is fast.

So if time is saved by not supporting Qt widgets on Android, I'm all for it.

Just my 2 cents.

Harri

On 03/16/2012 04:33 PM, Willy Gardiol wrote:
>
> I am not getting into this, just stating a one thing that directly 
> impact my projects and my use of Qt.
>
>> One thing I understand is that Widgets are more important to you than
>> QML, even though Qt is deprecating their use on mobile device.
>> Your call, but I think this is a waste of time/resource, and I admit
>
> I have a large codebase which uses widgets. Yes, it's a mobile 
> codebase, developed for Symbian. I do not share Nokia's idea of 
> deprecating widgets for mobile. Widgets works pretty well for my app. 
> Yes i had to write some to fix the worst, but it was amazingly fast 
> the the result is nicer than what you could get with QML for a _very_ 
> long time.
>
> One thing is to define a new approach (and QML is) but one thing is 
> trowing widgets away right now, as they did on N9. De facto screwing 
> not only a lot of desktop application which could be ported (think of 
> _tables_ for sakes!) but _ALSO_ any Symbian Qt app started over one 
> year ago, like mine. Which pisses me off immensely.
>
> So i praise Necessitas for openly supporting widgets and in my opinion 
> it's the way it should be.
>
> By dumping widgets you are dumpimg all Qt codebase which is the _main_ 
> strong point in adopting Qt at the momemnt. Any solution _must_ 
> encompass both QML and widgets at the same time. Of course, my biased 
> opinion.
>
> (Now please explain me why Nokia deprecated widgets for mobile. The 
> only reason i find is they didn't want to fix them. And i do not 
> understand why)
>
>