Comments (6)
I could help to port qml-material if possbile.
from shell.
First of all, we're not using QML Material, as that is only for QtQuick.Controls 1, not Controls 2. We're using Fluid now. This would also probably be better discussed in Fluid instead of here in the shell.
I might be wrong on this, but I feel that Ubuntu UI Toolkit is Canonical just doing their own thing creating new projects instead of working with Qt upstream on QtQuick.Controls. Anyhow, to address your points:
- QML Material worked on Ubuntu Touch (see Liri Browser), so I would expect Fluid will work as well. I don't know of any reason why Controls 2 wouldn't be supported if Controls 1 is.
- We're already depending on Qt 5.7, so I don't really see a huge need to support anything older than the latest version. (Yes, distributions might not have 5.7 yet, but they will eventually)
- Any specific examples? Maybe we could add our own implementations in Fluid or upstream in Controls 2.
One major advantage to Controls 2 (and a disadvantage to Ubuntu UI Toolkit) is that Controls 2 already has a pretty good implementation of Material Design that we merely build off of instead of writing it from scratch like I did in QML Material.
@plfiorini will likely have his own thoughts to add as well.
from shell.
Hi, the main reason for using Ubuntu UI Tookit for me is that it is QuickControl free, Ubuntu UI Toolit only depend on Qt qml part. It not depend on QuickControl, Canonical write it on cpp from scratch.
As QtQuickControl 2 and Quick.layouts 2 only works on Qt5.7(am I wrong?), it not works on most of linux distributions(eg ubuntu16.04 only support Qt5.6, ubuntu phone 5.5, Sailfish OS 5.2). Updating Qt verison may broken most of system packages on linux distribution,so it is better to support old version instead of only new version.
from shell.
You can write QML applications with whatever controls library you want and they will work on any platform with Qt. So for instance you can run a Fluid app on Ubuntu Touch and even SailfishOS if they have the right dependencies, but updating Qt is up to them.
They should really keep up, this is a sensitive matter I wouldn't trust much a Qt based platform that has a huge delta with the Qt version. Ubuntu 16.04 has an excuse, Qt 5.7 wasn't around at the time so I'm confident they will update their distro, while SailfishOS unfortunately slowed the development down quite a lot with their recent unfortunate events.
As far as normal Linux distros goes they already have Qt 5.7 at least in their development tree and soon will be pushed to the main tree.
It's not like we require every single Qt minor version each time it's released, probably we'll still require at least Qt 5.7 when 5.8 comes out. By that time distros will have Qt 5.7.
QtQuick Controls 2.0 is also designed for embedded which is quite an improvement over the now old QtQuick Controls 1.0 and it's part of the standard Qt offering meaning the API won't suddenly change and it's a strategic part of Qt today.
It also offer a much more standardized API for controls.
We are using QtQuick.Layout 1.0 that is available from the Qt 5.0/5.1 era, don't know anything about QtQuick.Layout 2.0.
from shell.
TL;DR: We need Qt 5.7 for other parts of the system anyway and QQC2 gives us advantages that other libraries don't offer.
from shell.
Thanks for your reply @plfiorini , I'll try fluid library and qmlOS after I received Qt5.7 package on my ubuntu 16.04(Or ubuntu 16.10) :) and try to make contributions to this project if possible as a qml-based workspace/shell is really awesome lol
from shell.
Related Issues (20)
- Drop shadow with border image
- Rounded corners
- Disable resource intensive details of the UI
- QtWayland shell integration for layer shell
- Zoom with WheelHandler
- Implement decorations with C++
- Improve splash screen
- Out of process PolicyKit agent
- New layer surface item and layout
- liri1platformheaders-config.cmake not found HOT 3
- Is the liri shell still maintained? HOT 1
- not in dnf copr HOT 1
- Getting a cmake error building, need a small fix to get it to work
- A small patch is needed for liri-shell-helper to not fail with an undefined symbol error
- XkbCommonConfig.cmake not found HOT 1
- shell build not honoring 'FEATURE_enable_systemd:BOOL=OFF'
- shell build without systemd support breaks by missing libsystemd though systemd support is not enabled
- Add Wayland client libraries here
- Use LayerShellQt
- Cursor theme and size
Recommend Projects
-
React
A declarative, efficient, and flexible JavaScript library for building user interfaces.
-
Vue.js
🖖 Vue.js is a progressive, incrementally-adoptable JavaScript framework for building UI on the web.
-
Typescript
TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript that compiles to clean JavaScript output.
-
TensorFlow
An Open Source Machine Learning Framework for Everyone
-
Django
The Web framework for perfectionists with deadlines.
-
Laravel
A PHP framework for web artisans
-
D3
Bring data to life with SVG, Canvas and HTML. 📊📈🎉
-
Recommend Topics
-
javascript
JavaScript (JS) is a lightweight interpreted programming language with first-class functions.
-
web
Some thing interesting about web. New door for the world.
-
server
A server is a program made to process requests and deliver data to clients.
-
Machine learning
Machine learning is a way of modeling and interpreting data that allows a piece of software to respond intelligently.
-
Visualization
Some thing interesting about visualization, use data art
-
Game
Some thing interesting about game, make everyone happy.
Recommend Org
-
Facebook
We are working to build community through open source technology. NB: members must have two-factor auth.
-
Microsoft
Open source projects and samples from Microsoft.
-
Google
Google ❤️ Open Source for everyone.
-
Alibaba
Alibaba Open Source for everyone
-
D3
Data-Driven Documents codes.
-
Tencent
China tencent open source team.
from shell.