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

[BogDan]

Hi,

Good new on this topic: http://groups.google.com/group/android-qt/browse_thread/thread/f12407af5947aefb

Cheers,
BogDan.


----- Original Message -----
> From: Marco Bernasocchi <marco at bernawebdesign.ch>
> To: android-qt at googlegroups.com
> Cc: Necessitas Devel <necessitas-devel at kde.org>
> Sent: Saturday, March 17, 2012 8:42 PM
> Subject: Re: (Necessitas is NOT...) on Widgets and QMLL
> 
> 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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