Qt contributors summit 2015 Program

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Friday 5.6.2015

Time	The Qt Company office
16:00 ->	Get-together / BBQ

Saturday 6.6.2015

Time	Plenary room (A1-030)
9.00 - 9.20	Registration
9.20 - 10.15	Plenary session

Time	Room 1 (A2-020)	Room 2 (A2-035)	Room 3 (A2-070)
10:30 - 11:20	Qt Creator Flat Style UI Design, Light and Dark themes	Qt on Embedded Linux (graphics, input, building, Yocto) - Laszlo Agocs
11:30 - 12:20	Qt Creator wizards	Services in Qt for Android - Eskil A. Blomfeldt and Christian Strømme	Qt website and services for Qt users - Tero Kojo
12:20 - 13:20	Lunch!	Lunch!	Lunch!
13:20 - 14:10	Qt installers - path forward - Kai Koehne	Qt on QNX - Peter Hartmann / Rafael Roquetto	Next-generation pointing and gesture support - Shawn Rutledge
14:20 - 15:10	QtRemoteObjects	QtNetwork	Screen Management in Qt - Untangling the Knot - Dan Vratil & Aleix Pol
15:20 - 16:10		Continuous Integration - Frederik Gladhorn	QtWayland - Paul & Jorgen
16:20 - 17:10	License policy for qt-project - 3rd party contributions, GPL apps/frameworks? - Lars Knoll		Resolution independence and HighDPI support - Paul O. Tvete

Sunday 7.6.2015

Time	Room 1 (A2-020)	Room 2 (A2-035)	Room 3 (A2-070)
9:00 - 9:50	QML Runtime - Alan Alpert		Local Qt Meetups, how to get them going and what support is needed? - Tero Kojo
10:00 - 10:50	Qt Quick Controls 2 - J-P Nurmi	Qt and Modern C++ - the future is now, how can we make use of the new stuff? - Louai Al-Khanji
11:00 - 11:50	QtWebEngine - Pierre Rossi	DynamicQML : Accessing any foreign technology within QML - Sem Donkers	Improving QML debugging and profiling connections
12:00 - 12:50	Qt and 3D - Pasi Keränen	NativeQML - Wrapping native UI controls in QML - Attila Csipa	Test coverage and benchmarking with QML
13:00 - 13:50	Lunch!	Lunch!	Lunch!
14:00 - 14:50		Qt Quick performance - Robin Burchell and Gunnar Sletta
15:00 - 15:50	Inqlude - collecting all 3rd party Qt libraries, Cornelius Schumacher	Deprecating thing - modules, compilers, platforms - Lars Knoll
16:00 - 16:50		Long-term support Qt, Thiago Macieira
17:00 - 17:15	Thank you!

Session descriptions for Saturday

Qt Installers - path forward

Kai Koehne

We're putting significant effort in our offline and online installers, and the framework that powers them. What are the biggest impediments in the current setup? Which alternative ways of distribution should we consider (3rd party package managers, online stores ..)?

Qt website and services

Tero Kojo

Status and future outlook of the services we have running for Qt project. Includes most services that are run under the qt.io domain like Forum and Wiki. Excludes codereview and bugreports, as I am not in charge of those.

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Resolution independence and HighDPI support

Paul O. Tvete

Discuss how to support creation of device independent user interfaces. This includes the DEVICE_PIXEL_RATIO approach for legacy applications, and resolution independent units for Qt Quick.

Session notes

Services in Qt for Android

Eskil A. Blomfeldt and Christian Strømme

Discuss how to implement support for Android Services in Qt for Android, specifically the problem of having both an Activity and a Service in the same application. Is it possible to provide the two, with independent entry points and exit points, in the same process? Or does it have to be separate processes? This session serves as brain storming and discussion about how this can be achieved and what the possible pitfalls are.

Session notes

Qt on Embedded Linux

Laszlo Agocs

Discuss the state of Qt 5.5 on Embedded Linux, focusing on recent additions and future plans for graphics, input, and the build system. Introduce recent efforts to enhance the building of Qt 5 via Yocto.

Notes: https://wiki.qt.io/Qt_on_Embedded_LinuxQtCS2015

Qt and 3D

Pasi Keränen

Discuss the state of 3D enablers in Qt now that 5.5 brings Canvas3D (a WebGL-like API to QtQuick) and Qt 3D 2.0 technology preview (an upcoming advanced, fully data driven C++ 3D scene graph). Some things we probably should discuss include: How easy is it to use these? Performance expectations? What kind of tooling would be in the scope of Qt to offer a good enough end-to-end content pipeline? What kind of use cases should we be looking at and optimising for?

Notes: https://wiki.qt.io/Qt_and_3D_QtCS2015

Next-generation pointing device and gesture support in Qt Quick

Shawn Rutledge

Because the Areas (MouseArea, PinchArea, Flickable etc.) have proven so unwieldy and we have so much trouble to support proper multi-point touch in a backwards-compatible way with them, an idea has materialized to use handlers in the form of attached properties instead, similar to the Keys attached property for handling key events. It's not a very solid plan yet though, so this is a good idea to discuss both that idea and any alternatives that anyone would like to suggest, to make event handling clean, simple and flexible.

https://wiki.qt.io/Next-generation_pointing_device_and_gesture_support

Continuous Integration

Frederik Gladhorn

Changes in our infrastructure to make integrations pass more reliably. Let's discuss how we're changing the testing infrastructure and how it hopefully leads to more reliable test integration and also package creation.

DynamicQML : Accessing any foreign technology within QML

Sem Donkers

We present a novice module, Organic Assembly (OA), that gives QML access to qobjects without ever using 'moc'. OA uses inspection to access features in any supported technology and creates qobjects on the fly. Thus QML can access things like d-bus, remote services using RPC, (D)COM, Soap, AI (and other) languages. Access to technologies is provided just-in-time. Adding a new technology is a one time effort. We would like to discuss the abilities and future of this module and invite the integration of other technologies.

NativeQML - Wrapping native UI controls in QML

Attila Csipa

Explore the (dis)advantages of using QML wrapped native UIs and toolkits, as opposed to the traditional QtQuick / QtQuick Controls based UIs. Moving from the single-codebase lowest-common-denominator UI approach to the single-language native-look-and-feel(-and-performance) UI one.

Slides: https://speakerdeck.com/achipa/native-qml-ui-controls

Screen Management: Untangling the knot

Dan Vratil and Aleix Pol

There's some issues that we keep hitting regarding window management that we need to fix. We'd like to discuss these issues over with the rest, so we can come up with a sane conclusion. Issues:

• Qt has its own concept of primaryScreen that doesn't relate to the platform's. https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-38404
• Crashes every now and then related to screen removal: https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-46399
• Prefer signals to destruction + construction
• Sometimes Qt decides to move a window from a screen to another, which used to be the window manager's job.

License policy for qt-project - 3rd party contributions, GPL apps/frameworks?

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Session descriptions for Sunday

Local Qt meetups

"Tero Kojo"

Qt used to have many more local groups doing meetups in the past. What needs to happen to get them going again? What kind of support is needed and what how can we help local Qt user groups?

Notes

Qt and Modern C++ - the future is now, how can we make use of the new stuff?

Louai Al-Khanji

So C++ is finally modernizing. Let's sit down and talk about what we can do with the new features and whether there are things in the core classes that can take advantage of them.

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Qt Quick Performance

"Robin Burchell and Gunnar Sletta"

We'd like to have a discussion about different issues we're seeing in Qt Quick; and perhaps to some extent Qt in general. Both in terms of benchmarking and tooling to better see and understand the problems, to raise awareness around problematic parts and to see what can be done short term and longer term.

Inqlude - collecting all 3rd party Qt libraries

Cornelius Schumacher

We have collected 179 Qt libraries on Inqlude so far. I would like to discuss status and future ideas and plans. Topics could include:

• How to present Qt itself on Inqlude
• Integration with installers and native package managers
• Integration with IDEs, such as Qt Creator
• How to present commercial offerings
• Feature wishes
• ...

Test coverage and benchmarking with QML

Ulf Hermann

With the latest changes the qmlprofiler command line tool is better suited for automated tasks. The profiling framework can be extended to track branches in JS, so that the output could be used to analyse code coverage.

As a follow-up to last year's Qt contributors summit let's compare notes on what has happened in the area oft QML coverage testing and what should still be done.

Improving QML debugging and profiling connections

Ulf Hermann

Right now the only way to connect the QML debugger or profiler to an application is through a TCP socket, opened by the application. In order for this to work, the debugger or profiler is expected to read a line of output printed by the application on stdout. This frequently causes problems as you might not be able to establish a TCP connection, or stdout might be redirected. Also, the implementation of the underlying protocol in QtQml increases the release binary size by about 300kb, which is a significant amount of dead code as long as you don't use either debugger or profiler. There are several ways to approach the problem:

• Add another connection plugin that doesn't need a TCP connection
• Further split up the implementation into more plugins, which are only loaded when needed and don't need to be deployed on production systems
• Reuse the connection established by C++ debuggers like gdb and lldb
• Use LD_PRELOAD and friends to inject code without plugins
• Improve the debugger and profiler clients to try some default values if line printed by the application doesn't arrive

QML Runtime

Alan Alpert

I'm still explaining the QML runtime to people, and why it deprecates both qmlscene and qmlviewer (although we won't kill them until Qt6).

It could use ideas on how to explain itself better, as to provide even more benefit and draw people that way. I have some ideas about integrated package management I'd like to discuss, as a possible way to help it be more useful (think built-in npm for a declarative language).

Session Notes

QtRemoteObjects

Alan and Bjørn

A discussion about the forward development of this playground module, mostly QML api and transport adapters

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3rd party qml/js modules

Alan Alpert

Continuing from Cornelius' topic, is there anything we should do for extra convenience with interpreted code modules? And what about using common js to integrate with existing js module repositories, is that worthwhile?

Summary: Doesn't seem to be anything special we want to do with interpreted only modules at this time. Existing inqlude functionality should work with them just as well. ES 6 comes with a common import mechanism that's more worth supporting than CommonJS, we'll aim for that w.r.t. 3rd party JS modules (but those wouldn't involve inqlude).

Qt WebEngine

Pierre and Zeno

A discussion about Qt WebEngine and its future development.

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Qt long-term releases

"Thiago Macieira"

Discussing which release of Qt should be a long-term one and how to achieve that. Notes

Qt Quick Controls 2

"J-P Nurmi"

Presenting Qt Quick Controls 2 in its current status. Notes