[SailfishDevel] GCompris

[Alex Smirnoff]

Hi.
I am glad to announce that, thanks to the main developers  from GCompris
community, Gcompris  could be now started on Jolla device.
More over, it is almost nothing prevents from merging Sailfish support in
GCompris master branch.

I have plan to place rpm on openrepos in short time to make it awailable
for everybody.

We still have one nice to have  and one major issue related to Sailfish.

- Some activities use Qt Quick  features, that are only available starting
from Qt 5.3.
So I want to ask if Sailfish OS will be Qt 5.3+ based or not? This is the
key point to understand if Sailfish  support should be merged already now
to master branch, or it'd better to wait till Sailfish 2.0.

- qt5-qtquickcontrols is still unavailable on Sailfish, so we could not
place GCompris on Jolla Shop.
Here I want to try to ask it again from Jolla guys.  Last time I just got a
suggestion from Andrey Kozhevnikov to port QtQuickControls to SailfishOS.
And that was more that easy, I have just built 5.2 branch with mersdk and
created rpm.

Let me explain once more why we need QtQuickControls on Sailfish.
Gcompris is not a silica application and never be, it is a generic qt
application that has a lot of different activities, developed by different
developers. So it should be possible to run it on different platforms.
There is no way to rewrite everything and change all imports to silica and
port all the new things ever and ever, because there is no support on other
platforms. Generic QtQuickControls is the best way.

So I want to hear the Jolla's point of view on this problem. As soon as a
more applicable in other cases Silica component may be not so applicable in
case of full-screen applications like GCompris.
It use it own layout and the Page type could not ensures anyway that page
content is scrolled to keep editable text fields visible when the virtual
keyboard is shown and so on, because the Page just no exist.

Or maybe there is a chance to somehow wrap QtQuickControls in Silica. I
believe that should be possible, I do not have this chance because there is
no open silica repository.

I believe that  educational application like GCompris is must have on Jolla
devices. And having it only in openrepos will definitely close  the door
for the lion's share of users.


-- 
Alex Smirnov
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