Hi Alex, great to see GCompris ported to Sailfish. I suppose it will be better suited for the new tablet rather than the telepone, given the target users (children), right?
I second your request for QtQuickControls support - It may help porting more applications to SailfishOs, and there are classes of applications where native look is not important (games, for example), or where there are too many qml files to port over in a short time. While there are custom components in Silica, there are a bunch of items that behave much in the standard way, and it is possible some sharing between different platforms could be achieved. Best regards, Luciano On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 8:35 AM, Alex Smirnoff <smirnoff...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi. > I am glad to announce that, thanks to the main developers from GCompris > community, Gcompris could be now started on Jolla device. > More over, it is almost nothing prevents from merging Sailfish support in > GCompris master branch. > > I have plan to place rpm on openrepos in short time to make it awailable for > everybody. > > We still have one nice to have and one major issue related to Sailfish. > > - Some activities use Qt Quick features, that are only available starting > from Qt 5.3. > So I want to ask if Sailfish OS will be Qt 5.3+ based or not? This is the > key point to understand if Sailfish support should be merged already now to > master branch, or it'd better to wait till Sailfish 2.0. > > - qt5-qtquickcontrols is still unavailable on Sailfish, so we could not > place GCompris on Jolla Shop. > Here I want to try to ask it again from Jolla guys. Last time I just got a > suggestion from Andrey Kozhevnikov to port QtQuickControls to SailfishOS. > And that was more that easy, I have just built 5.2 branch with mersdk and > created rpm. > > Let me explain once more why we need QtQuickControls on Sailfish. > Gcompris is not a silica application and never be, it is a generic qt > application that has a lot of different activities, developed by different > developers. So it should be possible to run it on different platforms. > There is no way to rewrite everything and change all imports to silica and > port all the new things ever and ever, because there is no support on other > platforms. Generic QtQuickControls is the best way. > > So I want to hear the Jolla's point of view on this problem. As soon as a > more applicable in other cases Silica component may be not so applicable in > case of full-screen applications like GCompris. > It use it own layout and the Page type could not ensures anyway that page > content is scrolled to keep editable text fields visible when the virtual > keyboard is shown and so on, because the Page just no exist. > > Or maybe there is a chance to somehow wrap QtQuickControls in Silica. I > believe that should be possible, I do not have this chance because there is > no open silica repository. > > I believe that educational application like GCompris is must have on Jolla > devices. And having it only in openrepos will definitely close the door for > the lion's share of users. > > > -- > Alex Smirnov > > _______________________________________________ > SailfishOS.org Devel mailing list > To unsubscribe, please send a mail to devel-unsubscr...@lists.sailfishos.org -- Luciano Montanaro Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. -- Douglas Adams _______________________________________________ SailfishOS.org Devel mailing list To unsubscribe, please send a mail to devel-unsubscr...@lists.sailfishos.org
