[OE-core] GUI based images

[Alex J Lennon]

On 09/05/17 09:05, Alexander Kanavin wrote:
> On 05/09/2017 01:15 AM, Paul Eggleton wrote:
>>> LXDE in particular is Gtk2 based, it's no longer being developed, and
>>> has been superseded by LXQt. So it's a non-starter (and so is LXQt,
>>> which should be clear from its name :).
>>
>> FWIW I think this is a little short-sighted. Why are we ruling out Qt 
>> exactly?
>
> We would first have to agree that Qt5 belongs in oe-core with 
> appropriate level of maintenance and QA, and that it's okay to add 
> half an hour or more to the building time of a standard GUI image.
>
> From the screenshots of LxQT, it looks like yet another Win95 clone 
> meant strictly for desktop use that would certainly scale poorly to 
> small resolution screens. Who would be the target audience for it in 
> the embedded space? For the purposes of 'engineering UI', Sato is 
> fine, and we don't need something else.
>
> Alex

fwiw. I would love to be able to develop devices like those pictured 
below, which I believe are based on Qt for Device Creation.

https://d33sqmjvzgs8hq.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/devices.png

ref: https://www.qt.io/qt-for-device-creation/

Cheers,

Alex