Qt platform abstraction layer provides a simpler and easier to maintain method of porting Qt to other platforms. Are there plans to upgrade the current Qt port in Genode to make use of the Qt platform abstraction layer?
Hi Robert,
Qt platform abstraction layer provides a simpler and easier to maintain method of porting Qt to other platforms. Are there plans to upgrade the current Qt port in Genode to make use of the Qt platform abstraction layer?
I agree that QPA is a very welcome improvement. We will will certainly adopt it for our port of Qt4 to Genode. That said, our current solution works quite well, too. So switching to QPA is not an urgent matter for us. I think a good time for the switch would be when we move from Qt4 to Qt5. But I do not see this happen before the end of the year.
Which immediate benefits do you see from switching over to QPA? Maybe knowing the motivation behind your question would create an additional incentive to take on this project?
Cheers Norman
There is no real motivation behind my question besides curiosity and experimentation.
Will Qt be an integral part of application development on genode or is it just there for legacy support?
I was interested attempting a port of Qt5 to L4Re but I've recently become more interested in genode as a platform to experiment with.
On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 2:19 PM, Norman Feske <norman.feske@...1...>wrote:
Hi Robert,
Qt platform abstraction layer provides a simpler and easier to maintain method of porting Qt to other platforms. Are there plans to upgrade the current Qt port in Genode to make use of the Qt platform abstraction
layer?
I agree that QPA is a very welcome improvement. We will will certainly adopt it for our port of Qt4 to Genode. That said, our current solution works quite well, too. So switching to QPA is not an urgent matter for us. I think a good time for the switch would be when we move from Qt4 to Qt5. But I do not see this happen before the end of the year.
Which immediate benefits do you see from switching over to QPA? Maybe knowing the motivation behind your question would create an additional incentive to take on this project?
Cheers Norman
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Hi Robert,
Will Qt be an integral part of application development on genode or is it just there for legacy support?
in the foreseeable future, Qt will be the best way to go for developing GUI applications for Genode. We are not planning otherwise. In a recent posting on the l4-hackers mailing list, I mentioned my principal interest in following up my past work with the DOpE GUI server at some point in the future. But this is not a tangible plan right now (more of a day dream).
http://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/pipermail/l4-hackers/2012/005459.html
If you decide to go for porting Qt5 to Genode, your work will be well received. The perfect way to start is to open a new topic on our issue tracker. There we can discuss the best way to go forward:
https://github.com/genodelabs/genode/issues
Once the issue is opened, I am sure that others that have a stake in the topic will get involved.
Cheers Norman
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