Since we are discussing this, does anyone from Jolla plan to attend Akademy 2015[1]?
This would be a good topic for a BOF/workshop. *And* it's end of July, so Jolla could avoid postage costs, and deliver my tablet! :-P [1] https://dot.kde.org/2015/01/20/akademy-2015-coru%C3%B1a-spain-25-31-july Regards, Luciano On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 1:56 PM, martin brook <martin.brook...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hi > > This thread reminded me of this > http://aseigo.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/qml-component-apis-to-come-together.html > , I'm not sure if anything came of the discussions. > > Also related I think is > https://lists.sailfishos.org/pipermail/devel/2015-February/005741.html > > vgrade > > On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 12:37 PM, Mike Sheldon <m...@mikeasoft.com> wrote: >> >> Hi Alex, >> >> On Thu, 2015-04-23 at 10:44 +0200, Alex Smirnoff wrote: >> >> > But how could I say to Gcompris community that I need to integrate >> > part of Qt into the application, just to be able to approved it for >> > Jolla store? >> >> I think the GCompris developers will understand this requirement, I've >> been working with them on porting to Ubuntu Touch which also requires >> bundling the components for inclusion in the Ubuntu app store. For the >> Ubuntu branch we pull in QtQuick Controls automatically from the host >> system as part of the build process for the Ubuntu click package (this >> does mean cross-compilation isn't possible, but otherwise makes things >> pretty simple). So if you chat to the GCompris developers about it I >> expect they'll understand the sorts of limitations mobile stores often >> have. >> >> Hope that helps, >> Mike. >> >> > >> > >> > 2015-04-23 9:57 GMT+02:00 Lucien Xu <sfietkonstan...@free.fr>: >> > Hi Alex, >> > >> > Qt Quick Controls can be themed, and you can use Qt Quick >> > components to do the theming of these controls. We have been >> > doing this kind of theming work for Nemo [1]. However, doing >> > this for Sailfish OS's Silica might require some effort, >> > approval from Jolla etc. >> > >> > However, there is a simpler way to get your app approved for >> > store: bundle Qt Quick controls as a static or dynamic library >> > and package it with GCompris. You will require some tweaks, >> > like renaming QML imports, but this works well. >> > >> > Regards, >> > Lucien >> > >> > [1] https://github.com/nemomobile/qtquickcontrols-nemo >> > >> > >> > ______________________________________________________________ >> > De: "Alex Smirnoff" <smirnoff...@gmail.com> >> > À: "Sailfish OS Developers" >> > <devel@lists.sailfishos.org> >> > Envoyé: Jeudi 23 Avril 2015 08:35:08 >> > Objet: [SailfishDevel] GCompris >> > >> > >> > Hi. >> > >> > I am glad to announce that, thanks to the main >> > developers from GCompris community, Gcompris could >> > be now started on Jolla device. >> > >> > More over, it is almost nothing prevents from merging >> > Sailfish support in GCompris master branch. >> > >> > >> > >> > I have plan to place rpm on openrepos in short time to >> > make it awailable for everybody. >> > >> > >> > We still have one nice to have and one major issue >> > related to Sailfish. >> > >> > >> > - Some activities use Qt Quick features, that are >> > only available starting from Qt 5.3. >> > So I want to ask if Sailfish OS will be Qt 5.3+ based >> > or not? This is the key point to understand if >> > Sailfish support should be merged already now to >> > master branch, or it'd better to wait till Sailfish >> > 2.0. >> > >> > >> > - qt5-qtquickcontrols is still unavailable on >> > Sailfish, so we could not place GCompris on Jolla >> > Shop. >> > >> > Here I want to try to ask it again from Jolla guys. >> > Last time I just got a suggestion from Andrey >> > Kozhevnikov to port QtQuickControls to SailfishOS. And >> > that was more that easy, I have just built 5.2 branch >> > with mersdk and created rpm. >> > >> > >> > Let me explain once more why we need QtQuickControls >> > on Sailfish. >> > >> > Gcompris is not a silica application and never be, it >> > is a generic qt application that has a lot of >> > different activities, developed by different >> > developers. So it should be possible to run it on >> > different platforms. >> > >> > There is no way to rewrite everything and change all >> > imports to silica and port all the new things ever and >> > ever, because there is no support on other platforms. >> > Generic QtQuickControls is the best way. >> > >> > >> > So I want to hear the Jolla's point of view on this >> > problem. As soon as a more applicable in other cases >> > Silica component may be not so applicable in case of >> > full-screen applications like GCompris. >> > >> > It use it own layout and the Page type could not >> > ensures anyway that page content is scrolled to keep >> > editable text fields visible when the virtual keyboard >> > is shown and so on, because the Page just no exist. >> > >> > >> > Or maybe there is a chance to somehow wrap >> > QtQuickControls in Silica. I believe that should be >> > possible, I do not have this chance because there is >> > no open silica repository. >> > >> > >> > I believe that educational application like GCompris >> > is must have on Jolla devices. And having it only in >> > openrepos will definitely close the door for the >> > lion's share of users. >> > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > Alex Smirnov >> > >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > SailfishOS.org Devel mailing list >> > To unsubscribe, please send a mail to >> > devel-unsubscr...@lists.sailfishos.org >> > >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > SailfishOS.org Devel mailing list >> > To unsubscribe, please send a mail to >> > devel-unsubscr...@lists.sailfishos.org >> > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > Alex Smirnov >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > SailfishOS.org Devel mailing list >> > To unsubscribe, please send a mail to >> > devel-unsubscr...@lists.sailfishos.org >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> SailfishOS.org Devel mailing list >> To unsubscribe, please send a mail to >> devel-unsubscr...@lists.sailfishos.org > > > > _______________________________________________ > SailfishOS.org Devel mailing list > To unsubscribe, please send a mail to devel-unsubscr...@lists.sailfishos.org -- Luciano Montanaro Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. -- Douglas Adams _______________________________________________ SailfishOS.org Devel mailing list To unsubscribe, please send a mail to devel-unsubscr...@lists.sailfishos.org
