On 4/12/21 5:14 AM, Thiago Macieira wrote:
Roland is asking we don't, but it's simply
not an option for the Open Source project. So we have two choices:
It is an option. Notably not a pleasant one.
Please read previous message discussing Abstraction and "Naperville
divorce."
When XCB became too much effort to bundle in with Qt so developers using
Qt didn't have to care what was under the hood, it was time for a full
divorce and replacement with a different underlying package. Admittedly
the effort wouldn't be free, but it was time to rip the bandage off.
What you choose to use under the hood is of little concern to high level
Qt application developers as long as we don't have to touch it. The
Naperville Divorce of XCB made certain we all had to touch it. Sticking
with XCB is really what torpedoed Scott. From what little I've
researched there are ways to get much newer compilers on RHEL 6.
Some competitors are putting Vulkan under the hood to get graphics, 3D,
and GPU access. According to the page below it is also on Andriod
https://www.khronos.org/vulkan/
Another in this thread listed quite a list of cross platform GUI libraries.
Again, ripping XCB out won't be a free effort even if the new library is
free as in beer, but the current situation with XCB is kind of at the
heart of everything when one steps back for a few days.
The state of Qt3D has already been dumped on quite succinctly. Yes, some
of the details may not have been 100% accurate but the outside world
view of it being the ugly red headed stepchild chained in the basement
was spot on.
Jason and others have already painted a rather abysmal picture for Android.
It's time to relinquish the GUI part of Qt to a Highlander (There can be
only one) and let it straddle the underlying video architectures on all
platforms. Instead focus on the parts of Qt that actually make
applications. The only GUI part you need to provide is consistent Styles
support, assuming your chosen underlying GUI library does not.
You should be able to maintain more than 90% high level API
compatibility yet jettison all of the low level graphics support in
favor of one really good cross platform GUI library.
Scott, could you poke around and see what 4K supporting GUI libraries
exist on RHEL 6? From an academic perspective it would be interesting to
find out. That would identify what has been chasing 4K the longest.
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