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[David Marceau <uticdmarceau2007@xxxxxxxx>]

I found this, but why did they have to change the jargon?
http://developer.ubuntu.com/api/qml/sdk-14.04/Ubuntu.Components/

http://developer.ubuntu.com/api/qml/sdk-14.04/Ubuntu.Components.OptionSelector/

OptionSelector seems to be what a radio and radio button group are.

I apologize for the rant.



On 03/24/2014 07:15 PM, David Marceau wrote:
> Ubuntu Touch team threw out radio buttons.
> 
> PROBLEM:  How are developers simply supposed to take a previously
> running qt app with radio buttons on the desktop and get it running on
> Ubuntu Touch?
> 
> Have you got a path to facilitate the migration or are you expecting
> developers to do a complete rewrite with every dialog containing radio
> buttons?
> 
> Once a selection is made, people don't necessarily want to navigate to
> the next screen automatically.  We are indecisive creatures.  We like to
> choose, think about it some more and then go to the next step.
> 
> Not everything is a list box.(not all options are displayed at the same
> time after selection. listboxes possibly imply multi-selection which is
> not a good thing.)
> Not everything is a button.(non-grouped option)
> Not everything is a checkbox.(multi-select)
> 
> I wrote a simple app in go-gtk, c++-gtk, qt for android.  All of these
> have radio buttons/radio button groups.  X, Motif, OpenLook, Gnome, KDE,
> Android all have radio buttons.
> 
> Please reconsider this.  The functionality is qt was already there and
> you took it out.  That wasn't necessary to do unless you have something
> better to offer and something to facilitate a migration path without
> resorting to rewriting code that worked on the desktop and on other
> devices.  I don't see the rationale behind this decision.  It's not
> consistent with adopting the qt toolkit that is certain.  When adopting
> qt, one usually adopts all qt controls because their controls are known
> to display and work on all of their supported os's and devices.  Ubuntu
> Touch is the standing out like a sore thumb with respect to radio
> buttons not being supported on Ubuntu Touch, but being supported on the
> desktop.
> 
> Cheers,
> David Marceau
>