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[[Category:Developing Qt]]

This page is a scratch-pad with input from the [[Maintainers]] regarding the plans and ambitions they might have for their respective modules. Only modules for which plans have been communicated are listed here

== Autumn 2022 ==


=== Qt Designer ===

* update the icons

=== Qt for Python/shiboken ===

* Keep up-to-date with Qt
* Adapt to C++20 features if needed

=== Qt Network ===

* Investigate Apple's networking framework; SecureTransport was deprecated by Apple, need an alternative
** Support more TLS plugins (mbedtls, wolfTLS, Darwin-specific QNAM plugin ...?)
* QUIC/HTTP3 support (no 3rd party libraries found that don't bring the entire network and TLS stack)
* separate tests that require CI infrastructure from those that don't
* Simplify server-side TLS certificate changes - https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-95160

=== Qt Location ===

* Continue port to Qt 6: https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-96795

=== UI frameworks (Widgets, Quick, Quick Controls) ===

(input from Qt Company R&D teams)

* make sure that UI personalisation works out-of-the-box
** dark-mode support on Windows and Linux (via platform theme, widget, and quick control styles)
* Make it easy to integrate design system driven workflows for Qt Quick UIs

=== Platforms coming up ===

* Windows 11 22H2
* macOS 13
* iOS 16
* Android 13
* Ubuntu 22.04

=== Comments ===

* Benchmark system that runs regularly and alerts on regressions
* Keep the amount of deprecations in check, always be aware of the impact on client code
* Developer experience of Qt is getting worse; often not possible to open qtbase/CMakeLists.txt in Creator (parsing takes too long); worse on Windows, gets worse on Linux as well; need to be able to open a sub-CMakeLists.txt