Prashanth Udupa

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Closing the Gaps – QML on Desktop - Video

QML can be used for desktop apps, but gaps are easily visible for longtime widget users. This talk highlights these gaps and shares ideas for closing them, building on Qt Desktop Days 2020's "Insights From Building Desktop App Using QML." It focuses on optimizing QML for desktop, sharing experiences from the Scrite project's unique solutions to interesting problems encountered over six months.

Building A Desktop Productivity App Using QML - Video

Scrite is a free, open-source screenplay writing application demonstrating QML's effectiveness for desktop productivity apps. Developer Prashanth Udupa discovered key design patterns making QML viable for complex desktop applications, including model-view approaches, Qt meta-object mastery, custom QML properties, thread management, and strategic use of components like Loaders and GammaRay for debugging.

Prashanth Udupa

Prashanth has been developing software using Qt since 2001. He bootstrapped and ran a services & products company based on Qt in India for 12 years. Then, he co-founded TERIFLIX, a startup in Bengaluru India focussed on offering private and social screening experiences of films.

Since the pandemic broke, he has been developing Scrite a free and open-source screenwriting app for Linux, Windows and macOS desktops (www.scrite.io). Having used QML for developing the complete UI of Scrite, he is confident that QML is ready for building large desktop apps that would have traditionally been built using Widgets.