[RFC] Port PlasmaComponents to use QtQuick Controls where applicable

[Daker Fernandes Pinheiro]

I agree with Marco,

Just would like to remark that building the styles for qtquickcontrols
should be top priority.


2013/8/19 Marco Martin <notmart at gmail.com>

> On Monday 19 August 2013, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > no matter how wonderful it is to have a single shared implementation
> > upstream so we don’t have to do anything but implement applications, we
> > have to hit the three points above.
> >
> > in the end API, stability and device spectrum are what matters to 3rd
> party
> > developers and our users.
>
> There are some components that have very minimal change, unfortunately in
> many
> plasces there is a very small detail (like icon and iconName vs iconSource)
> that makes it not zero effort.
> Some other are more different, like PageStack got renamed in StackView (but
> behaviourally seems pretty much untouched)
>
> As I said, they are probably in the long term the way to go, should be
> possible quite some personalization per se, and if not enough the whole
> single
> component can still be replaced with a different implementation like we do
> now.
>
> The catch is also that i would really like to see how much lie is the cake
> this time (we jumped on promising unfinished technologies by qt several
> times
> already, and not always ended up very well, remember)
>
> * is to be tried, for sure, and see if some of the components can be
> replaced
> with an implementation that is completely drop in.
>
> * adapting api may be an option, depends how much we want or can suffer (we
> have quite on our plate...)
>
> * plasma style for qtquickcontrols has to be done anyways, since they can
> be
> used (well, technically at least) from plasmoids and people will use them
> (i
> guess in the future they may have more widgets, maybe some that we don't
> have
> in plasmacomponents, so they should play nice together)
>
>
>
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