If the controls don't end up in qtquickcontrols2, please at least consider putting them in qpm (https://www.qpm.io/) so that other people can benefit from them easily :)
------- Jean-Michaël Celerier http://www.jcelerier.name On Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 2:13 PM, Alexey Andreyev < yetanotherandre...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, Aleksey Kontsevich! Thank you for your support, I do agree that > Sailfish OS is receiving a huge contribution from Russian speaking > developers and focusing on other local markets too. There's also related > AsteroidOS community about smartwatches. They have a demo [1] > > Talking about popularity: from my point of view, while Microsoft is > providing their Metro unified look for desktop and Intel-based tablets (and > Xbox) for example, looks like they do not have any plans for new mobile > devices (I mean arm-based) to provide. While Sailfish OS is mobile OS with > GSM-stack support for real arm-based systems. [1] Correct me if I'm wrong, > I do not want to mislead anyone. > > Mitch Curtis, thank you for your feedback sincerely. I do understand your > skepticism about yet another controls in mainline to support. (but I do not > share this personally :) > I'm new to qqc2 internals. I've cloned qtquickcontrols2 repo 5.10.1 brach > (to play on my Arch Linux system). Dependency from some private APIs looks > tricky for me at first glance. I'm trying to sort out. I'm not against > providing silica style as some custom repo, the result I want to get is > open source solution to run Qt application in my personal environment with > native Silica look and feel. Will be happy to get any hints about basic > repo draft in that case (should I look at Kirigami approach?) > > Anyway, as I wrote at my GSoC proposal, GSoC campaign is just money > support, I love Silica style, using Sailfish OS for several years and can't > stand that no one is willing to port it to modern QQC2 approach :) I guess > it could radically change skepticism about qt quick controls approach in > general from ios and android developers. > > [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rd86KTs2Les > [2]: https://wiki.merproject.org/wiki/Adaptations/libhybris > > 2018-04-03 13:38 GMT+03:00 Aleksey Kontsevich <tantr...@ya.ru>: > >> Hi all, my 2 cents here: >> >> >The controls look nice, but my concern is how relevant the Silica style >> is these days (in the context of how many people are developing apps for the >> >Sailfish OS). >> >> Sailfish OS become VERY popular in Russia and in Latin America, and for >> people who wants their data and communication be secure. Market in Russia >> growing very fast, Sailfish OS devices are hits of sales, leading >> universities created courses for Sailfish OS, government certified >> it for corporate and government use and since 2019 all mobile >> applications from national software list (government and corporate use) >> should work in Sailfish OS (according to import replacing law all >> applications should be Russian-native and secure). >> >> -- >> Best regards, >> Aleksey >> Linked in https://www.linkedin.com/in/alekseykontsevich >> >> >> >> 03.04.2018, 13:13, "Mitch Curtis" <mitch.cur...@qt.io>: >> > Hi Alexey. >> > >> > The controls look nice, but my concern is how relevant the Silica style >> is these days (in the context of how many people are developing apps for >> the Sailfish OS). >> > >> > For each style we currently have, I would justify their inclusion into >> qtquickcontrols2.git for the following reasons: >> > >> > Default - extremely high performance at the cost of a very basic >> appearance. Tries to be neutral in terms of looks. >> > >> > Fusion - bridges the gap in terms of Desktop styling. An >> additional/more specific point that I think it is important here is that >> the controls are more compact (smaller) than any other pre-built style we >> offer (the Material style has a dense variant now, but that’s still larger >> if I recall correctly). >> > >> > Imagine - puts power in the hands of designers, frees up time for >> developers. >> > >> > Material - very relevant in terms of Android market share. Looks really >> nice; a good candidate for “non-native” cross-platform apps. >> > >> > Universal - relevant in terms of Windows market share. >> > >> > As mentioned, I do think the Silica controls look nice, but that’s the >> only justification I could think of for including them in >> qtquickcontrols2.git. For each new style we add, the maintenance cost >> increases, so this is something that we need to consider. >> > >> > What is your opinion on this? >> > >> > Cheers. >> > >> > From: Alexey Andreyev [mailto:yetanotherandre...@gmail.com] >> > Sent: Friday, 23 March 2018 8:49 PM >> > To: Mitch Curtis <mitch.cur...@qt.io> >> > Cc: development@qt-project.org >> > Subject: Re: [Development] [Google Summer of Code] [Project Ideas] Qt >> Quick Controls 2 Sailfish Silica Style >> > >> > Thank you Mitch for the feedback! >> > I've also tried to record current controls on a real device: >> https://youtu.be/T-qUZMuTGqw (hope not only 360p will be available soon) >> > >> > 2018-03-23 21:55 GMT+03:00 Alexey Andreyev < >> yetanotherandre...@gmail.com>: >> >> Silica cheat sheet: >> >> https://sailfishos.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/component_ >> cheatsheet.png >> >> Theme cheat sheet: >> >> https://sailfishos.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/theme_cheatsheet.png >> >> Icon reference: >> >> https://sailfishos.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/icon_reference.png >> >> code example: >> >> https://gist.github.com/jaymzznoori/a980314f8248e0a1e7904c29c88ecdf3 >> >> >> >> Youtube video with timestamp for platform-specific PulleyMenu element >> example: https://youtu.be/jByW7UNmbxU?t=11m38s >> >> >> >> 2018-03-23 21:40 GMT+03:00 Mitch Curtis <mitch.cur...@qt.io>: >> >>> Hello. >> >>> >> >>> Are there any screenshots of it? I read that entire page and the >> Silica docs but couldn’t see anything. >> >>> >> >>> Cheers. >> >>> >> >>> From: Development [mailto:development-bounces+mitch.curtis= >> qt...@qt-project.org] On Behalf Of Alexey Andreyev >> >>> Sent: Friday, 23 March 2018 5:39 PM >> >>> To: development@qt-project.org >> >>> Subject: [Development] [Google Summer of Code] [Project Ideas] Qt >> Quick Controls 2 Sailfish Silica Style >> >>> >> >>> Hello! >> >>> My name is Alexey, what do you think about Silica Style for QQC2 as a >> gsoc project? >> >>> I have some notes here: http://aa13q.ru/qqc2-silica-style-en/ >> >>> >> >>> and want to create a proposal. >> > >> > , >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Development mailing list >> > Development@qt-project.org >> > http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Development mailing list > Development@qt-project.org > http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development > >
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