On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 02:54:24PM -0400, Matthew Woehlke wrote: > On 22/05/2020 13.43, Jason H wrote: > > How about I just pay - which my company already does? The lagging mobile > > support has us considering moving away from Qt. I think this decision > > would confirm our direction and only hasten our departure > > from the Qt ecosystem. > > > > I guess to some degree it depends on how you define "essential". > > Clearly multimedia *is* essential > What's "clear" to you may not be "clear" to everyone. I, personally, don't > believe I have ever used QtMM. I can think of applications I might *like* to > write that might use it, but plenty of applications I *do* write have no > need for it. Most KDE applications don't need it. QtC and Designer don't > need it. > > In fact, out of the software I use in a typical day, the only stuff that > comes to mind that might need it are: > > - Gwenview (but it's more a nice-to-have) > - Plasma? (Whatever is responsible for system notifications, anyway) > - My web browser (except I use Firefox, which does not use Qt...) > - Dragon > > Really, the only three things I would argue *need* it are my web browser, > media player, and the desktop environment itself. > > For quite a few application developers, it is *not* essential at all.
FWIW I write a browser[1] using Qt - in its default configuration, it uses QtWebEngine, which does not use QtMultimedia either (and uses Chromium's multimedia stack instead). Florian [1] https://www.qutebrowser.org/ -- m...@the-compiler.org (Mail/XMPP) | https://www.qutebrowser.org https://bruhin.software/ | https://github.com/sponsors/The-Compiler/ GPG: 916E B0C8 FD55 A072 | https://the-compiler.org/pubkey.asc I love long mails! | https://email.is-not-s.ms/
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