Hi Aaron, Thanks for the quick reply, I can understand the reasons why the widgets should not be made using python (opening one interpreter for each widget for example), but I'm not quite convinced about the radical way where all widgets UI must be done using QML.
In my opinion it should be a developer decision, like if I want to keep all of my code in C++, why not ? Cheers, Paulo Nogueira On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 2:41 AM, Aaron J. Seigo <ase...@kde.org> wrote: > On Tuesday, January 15, 2013 13:47:32 Paulo Nogueira wrote: >> So the python support will be there, and if I don't want to write QML >> UI. Would it be possible to still writing the UI using python ? > > this is a bit like asking "If I don't want to use QGraphicsView, can I still > write the UI using python?" there is no choice in that, as the entire plasma > shell ends up being rendered on a QGraphicsView via a QGraphicsScene. > > we are moving to the QML scenegraph and the only UI system supported will be > QML. so all the UI will be done in QML, and there will be no choice in that > just as there i no choice in using QGraphicsView now. > > the possibility exists for us to support Applets which are written in python > but which use QML for the user visible parts. you'd still need to write and > ship QML, but maybe you could do some behind-the-scenes parts in python. the > question is: why? > > there really is nothing left that is easier or better done with python when it > comes to the UI. all business logic that is Too Complex(tm) to be done in QML > can be (and should be) put into loadable QML components, Plasma Services, etc. > these can be written in C++, and possibly python, but they really don't touch > the UI itself. > > as such, i don't see any reason to support writing Applets in a python+QML > hybrid form. > > -- > Aaron J. Seigo > _______________________________________________ > Plasma-devel mailing list > Plasma-devel@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel > _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
