[Lazarus] Qt5 plans available

[Graeme Geldenhuys]

It seems the whole world is going "mobile computing" nuts!!

http://www.osnews.com/story/24713/Nokia_Announces_Qt_5_Plans


My thoughts on pushing those "mobile computing" UI interfaces into the
desktop application space is rather negative. eg: Unity in Ubuntu, Gnome
Shell in Gnome 3 - clearly all designs from the mobile touch screen
devices - not so good on the desktop though. Lets hope that Qt 5's
default graphics engine that requires OpenGL and forces developers to
use Javascript instead for app development, doesn't affect desktop
application developers too much. At least there is a mention of the
QWidget-style API still hanging around for some time - but not there
main focus any more.

Good news is that at least this time they are going to try and make the
upgrade from Qt 4 to Qt 5 less painful (remember the move from Qt3 to
Qt4?). So the Lazarus LCL-Qt developers should be happy with that.

BTW:
To those Lazarus LCL-Qt developers. Kudos for a job well done! I have
recently compiled my Lazarus 0.9.30.x IDE with the LCL-Qt interface and
it works and looks very good so far.


Regards,
  - Graeme -

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