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
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On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 12:37 PM, Mike Sheldon 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 :
> > 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"
> > À: "Sailfish OS Developers"
> >
> > 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
