Plans for Modules

This page is a scratch-pad with input from the Maintainers regarding the plans and ambitions they might have for their respective modules.

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