QtCS2015 QtOnQNX

Qt on QNX

SDP 6.5

• clarify: which Qt version supports which SDP (put it on the Wiki)
• drop SDP 6.5 for Qt 5.6 (because of improved C++11 support etc.)

new QPA plugin

• new features: foreign windows, new properties, transparency...
• full support for foreign windows
• Qt app can act as a window manager
• release new screen features etc. on top of 6.6 (~ later this year?)
• new feature in screen: window manager events (e.g. resize child window)
• plugin will be upstreamed at some point
• current and new plugin can live concurrently for a while
• also comes with new event dispatcher (not using select() anymore, now: msg_recv)
• problem with grabbing window contents: can be implemented in QPA plugin, works with native screen
• virtual keyboard: part of QNX Car, but not normal SDP. There is a Qt virtual keyboard as well, running in the same process. Task: use virtual keyboard.

CI on QNX

• 6.6 is on CI (only building), 6.5 is just nightly build
• we need manual QA (maybe from QNX), because there is nothing automated
• need to run auto tests on QNX as well, at least before the release

QtCreator QNX support

• Creator 3.5: need to verify QNX is still working, now that BlackBerry is gone
• building BSPs from QtCreator: Momentics is the main tool for that

BB10 in Qt

• hard to remove because it is intertwined with QNX code
• still working, leave it in for now, it might break or not
• still supported according to documentation: we need to remove claiming that it is supported
• sensors, bluetooth, NFC: this is all dead code, if nobody looks at it, it will be removed eventually
• if somebody from QNX wants to use old BB / QNX code, they should step up

C++11

• SDP 6.6 gcc version: 4.7
• there are 2 C++ stdlib implementations on QNX: GNU C++ / Dinkumware
• Dinkumware is a problem wrt. C++11
• Thiago: QNX might want to switch to libstdc++, if problem is only the license
• need to check qtbase test_auto_other_compiler to check for Dinkumware's C++11 support

Chromium on QNX

• needed for QtWebEngine on QNX
• also needs C++11
• current Web technology is based on Webkit
• QtWebkit at least works on QNX