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

[Marco Bernasocchi]

Hi all,
I totally agree with Willy, I've ported a very big GIS application 
straight to tablets and it works great, it is a pity that QWidgets are 
deprecated...

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)
>
>


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Marco Bernasocchi
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