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26 November 2020
This video is the closing session of the first Qt Desktop Days. It includes a Q&A on Qt and the Desktop with key figures from the Qt Community. You can find the questions and speaker bios below.
Content
0:00 Introduction and welcoming the panelists
5:12 What's the worst thing you saw going really wrong during these past days?
6:16 Have you got an opinion on the upcoming Microsoft .net multiplatform app UI?
9:17 Is Qt Desktop Days going to be a new annual event?
11:17 Are there any plans to complete the QtQuickControl offering: Calendar, TreeView...?
16:26 What does a 'Qt-er' call themselves?
17:50 Could Qt have done something different to be a more popular choice for Android?
22:36 When starting a new Desktop App, should I use Widgets or QML?
24:05 How's your motivation for QtCore? Less or more busy with non-Qt stuff?
26:16 What area do you think Qt will focus on in the future?
32:06 Why does The Qt Company focus so much on automotive solutions and companies?
32:27 Where do you see Qt moving to in three to four years?
38:17 What are we looking into in the future of Qt? AR, VR, voice input?
40:24 What do you think about Qt's SQL offering?
41:26 Consumer device vendors aren't showing much love for Qt.
42:47 How long is Qt 5 going to be around?
45:53 Talk of KDE fork of Qt due to a change in licenses. What is the status of this?
50:37 Do Widgets have a future? What can the community do to help it go forward?
53:53 Will Qt Creator have first class support for Python?