I was not talking about porting all the apps to Qt, actually this is
not necessary you can run GTK+ apps over a Qt Wayland compositor
without any problems, I was talking about write *one* app using Qt.
But if for some good reason you don't want to include Qt in the
default CD image (to save a couple of MB?) then that is OK otherwise
let me know, I'd be more than happy to collaborate with the eOS
project :)
2014-06-06 18:50 GMT+01:00 Jacob Parker <jacobparker1992@xxxxxxxxx>:
José,
There is no possibility of porting to Qt, as all the apps are done
with Vala (dependency on Gtk). Gtk+ also supports Wayland.
Hope this helps!
On Fri, Jun 06, 2014 at 6:41 pm, José Expósito
<jose.exposito89@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi all,
I was wondering what are the plans of the eOS team about Wayland.
Are you choosing Wayland or Mir?
Personally speaking, I think that Wayland is the correct option here
for a lots of reasons, so I made a proof of concept C++/QML
compositor that looks like [1].
I know that elementary OS relies on GTK+ but in my opinion, talking
about Wayland and interface design, Qt is a step ahead GTK+,
allowing you to make 100% customizable GUIs without many effort.
To quote some example, as you can see in the screenshot, the window
shadow is implemented in 7 QML lines:
RectangularGlow {
anchors.fill: parent
glowRadius: shadowRadius
spread: 0.2
color: Qt.rgba(0,0,0,0.5)
cornerRadius: shadowRadius
}
And the fade in/out effect for opening/closing windows is
implemented in 3 lines:
Behavior on opacity {
NumberAnimation { easing.type: Easing.InCubic; duration: 400; }
}
Plus you can build 100% custom responsive UIs (phone, tablet and
desktop in the same app without many changes) with cool animations
as you can see in this other project [2] And yes... that means that
it is possible to adapt the compositor to run it in different kind
of devices like phones or tablets.
And all of this is hardware accelerated :) So, after pointing why I
used Qt instead of GTK+ to build this proof of concept compositor,
I'd like to ask you... Are you guys interested on porting the eOS
shell to Wayland? Would you be interested in the use of Qt, or do
you prefer to maintain a GTK+ only system for some reason? If the
answer is yes, would you be interested on my collaboration?
I'm waiting for your reply,
Thank you!
[1] http://oi60.tinypic.com/ekrjaw.jpg [1]
[2] https://github.com/JoseExposito/ubuntuone-qt-files [2]
