On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 1:30 PM, André Pönitz <andre.poen...@mathematik.tu-chemnitz.de> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 07, 2013 at 05:03:05PM -0800, Alan Alpert wrote: >> With the new cross-platform focus, we need some way for QML to >> load platform specific content at runtime. [...] >> It's really Qt that's cross-platform focused now, not me. [...] > > These are interesting statements. > > Given that being cross-platform has been _the_ core promise of Qt > since its inception (and yes, I conveniently ignore 2010 +/-1.5 year > or so), this "new cross-platform focus" must be meant to relate to > QML only.
Nope. > > Am I really supposed to read this as "when $someone invented QML, > cross-platform was not a consideration, now there's suddenly a need > to glue on a few cross-platform features"? Nope. What I meant by "new cross-platform" focus what just my personal opinion, standard disclaimers apply ;) . I wasn't using the term platform correctly here, I was really referring to the cross-device-spectrum focus. The cross-platform focus that's been with Qt from its inception has been deploying across different platforms but the same device. I don't think we've really been interested in the same platform, different device case. Which really shows how badly I used the term "cross-platform". So I'll try to replace "cross-platform" now with "cross-device". Imagine that you have one package for the BB10 app world and it's supposed to work on all the future devices. I can't remember the exact details which have been publicly revealed yet, but it does include all-touch vs keyboard and a couple of different resolutions. You need some way to select the right content when you're installed on a specific device (this could be run-time or package-time technically, but I still prefer run-time). Android has the same problem, I have a lot of apps on my Nexus 7 which either literally or metaphorically do not work on that device. There are also apps that just have an ugly black border thanks to the auto-compatibility layer. As a convenience GUI toolkit, I think Qt should have some way to help application developers with this problem. I'm just focused on QML because I'm always focused on QML :) . >> I just want this so that SameGame runs beautifully on BB10 :) . >> So while I'd welcome feedback from any source, I *need* to hear >> it from people interested in other platforms (or even just >> cross-platform development!). > > Is the question whether Qt should _also_ allow to develop single- > platform toy applications, or whether Qt should be shoehorned > into something that _only_ allows development single-platform toy > applications? > I'm not talking about a single-platform toy application - if I wanted to make SameGame run beautifully *only* on BB10 that's really easy. I'm talking about multi-platform toy applications, preferably in a way that real applications could use too (and obviously not in a way that hampers real applications, no matter how many platforms they run on). -- Alan Alpert _______________________________________________ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
