I had a look at b2qt earlier and Alex asked me to share on list as well so I'll resurrect this thread from May...
On 10 May 2017 at 14:09, Alexander Kanavin < alexander.kana...@linux.intel.com> wrote: > On 05/10/2017 01:55 PM, Paul Eggleton wrote: > >> I make no secret of it - I am a Qt supporter. I'm willing to be convinced >> that's not the right answer, though, if there are solid arguments. >> However, if >> you'll excuse my paraphrasing, "it's not in OE-Core and can't be, >> therefore we >> should just ignore it" isn't a case against it, it's a logistical issue. >> We >> could easily get past that by bringing meta-qt5 into poky as we do with >> OE- >> Core, or even just adding it to the build configuration as needed. >> > > That's not what I'm saying. I'm saying that for people who want a > 'reference UI for real products' and have no problem with Qt, we should > officially endorse meta-b2qt. > > Seriosuly. They have a wayland compositor, and an app launcher, and a set > of embedded-specific demos, and it's written and tested by specialists with > an explicit target of making it easy to make products. And it's open source > with optional commercial support. In that light, there is no sense > whatsoever in solving the same problem in oe-core, poorly. My verdict after a bit of testing and some light digging at the sources: Very cool demo, vastly better than Sato for "Trade show demo unit" use case (although the current content is naturally just Qt marketing). It does not seem useful as Sato-the-QA-platform replacement and I would be wary of suggesting it for any product use without caveats: my worry is the maintenance status of the DE components. Some details: * Some of the "Desktop Environment" components are possibly not meant for production use: e.g. the wayland compositor/WM does not seem completely finished, either from feature or polish POV. It's even called "democompositor". The last real code change in the relevant repo was in Feb 2016. For a single app use case this might not matter. * It wouldn't work as a generic desktop (needs launcher specific files per application) * That wouldn't be so bad but the only app they include is the browser, the rest are ads or demos (browser admittedly is very nice) Jussi
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