QtQuickMinutes20100824

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Agenda/Minutes August 24th, 2010 - week 34

QML / QtDeclarative

• Bug fixing ramping down, we're close to the cut-off point
• Bug count is going up (naturally)
• P2 and higher will try to fix for 4.7.1
• looking at model views and Script Engine topics

Bauhaus / Creator

• preparing 2.0.1, found bugs and fixed
• review on QML Observer approach this week (live preview), in Qt Creator master http://qt.gitorious.org/qt-creator
• texteditor is quite pimped up, thinking about what next features for QML tooling is
• all try out the Observer in master branch!
• debugger support for 4.7, might need state handling additions for 4.7.1

Documentation

• QML Elements is now alphabetically indexed
  • all agree the grouped where you see elements inline is better
• Working on a poster of QML Elements
• "Device UIs and Qt Quick" -> Qt Quick

QtComponents

• have first set of some components, continuing list dialog progress titlebar etc
• If stable and feature-full, let's investigate getting it in something similar to extras-devel

QML Enablers

• discussing flickable integration, gestures / touch events will be hairy as they conflict with mouse events
• munich's kinetic scroller, could be used all over Qt to have one implementation
  • But we might need multiple behaviors; e.g. for list, webview, grid

Specific Topics

• Qt 4.7 will be released with minimal QML support in Creator
  • Full QtQuick features with SDK, Qt 4.7 contains all the technology
• Mobility API in QML
  • we need more feedback! not that many using it yet
• orientation challenges
  • Qt Mobility 1.1 will provide orientation and QML bindings
  • creator provides boilerplate C++ code in wizards until then
• PathView problems
  • javascript/c++ model takes a lot of time to fill the pathview
  • if you do in onCompleted it works
  • same effect if you scroll fast
  • Bug report in QTBUG-13017
• QtMultimedia QML bindings needs validation
  • GalleryQueryModel, list of items seems slow
  • GalleryQueryModel, lacks some properties