Please, if you port something to QML, make it at the very least exactly the same as the C++ version!

[Marco Martin]

On Monday 09 July 2012, Mark wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> I really have to stress this out. It annoys me to even see it since it
> seems so obvious (to me).
> When you port some GUI part of KDE from C++ to QML i would expect the
> porter to keep:
> - feature parity
> - visual parity
> - functional parity
> 
> So, i just installed KDE 4.9 RC 1 with high hopes of QML in some
> places thus i happily started testing that. That's when i got some
> "WTF" "No, you got to be joking!" moments.

may be better? yes.
however this is not the right attitude at all to tackle it, it's not helping 
anyone.

> The first thing i tested out was the shutdown dialog which is in QML
> now. While it may have feature parity, it certainly lacks visual
> parity and probably some functional parity as well. The first thing i
> noticed was missing drop down shadows in corners. I leave the rest up
> to the bug reports i made for it:
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=303216
just reproduces the old behavior

> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=303215
weird drivers issue, not really reproducible

> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=303214
fixed

> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=303213
old problem in the theme, not a regression, fixed now.

> 
> Lets make KDE 4.9 rock solid!
> 

indeed

-- 
Marco Martin