Thank you Konrad, useful thoughts. Best, Marco Piccolino
2017-05-17 11:50 GMT+02:00 Konrad Rosenbaum <kon...@silmor.de>: > Hi, > > On Wed, May 17, 2017 07:56, Marco Piccolino wrote: > > In what scenarios would it still make sense to use QtWidgets for new > > projects? > > First off: both technologies are fully supported. Widgets are not obsolete. > > It depends on your target platform and target audience: > > App for mobile phones or tablets: use QML. > > Info terminals with touch interaction: probably QML, since you probably > need custom styles and animation. > > On Desktop you actually get a choice: > > Productivity(*) Applications: you are much better off with Widgets. > > Fancy Multimedia Apps, Games with non- or semi-professionals as target > audience: you are probably better off with QML. > > (*) With "productivity" I mean anything in which the storage and > calculations in the background are far more important than good looks. The > most obvious examples being book keeping, mathematical applications, > specialized business apps. E.g. controls for complex machines are border > cases: on the one hand it is productivity targeted at professionals and > the data and control is more important than the looks, on the other hand > an animation of the actuators can safe your users days of diagnosis. > > As Till already hinted: > > Use Widgets if you need a simple style that looks familiar to users of the > platform and you do not want a language break between functionality and > GUI. Your app will probably look professional and boring, this is > perfectly normal and nothing to be worried about. > > Use QML if you need fancy styles and animations. Your app will look fancy, > stylish, and may distract users. This is okay if those distractions are > not a danger to the user or his/her business. It may even be an important > property if your user wants to be distracted. > > If necessary: mix them. > > > > Konrad > >
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