Kirigami: convergence with Desktop as first-class

Presented by Marco Martin, KDE and Blue Systems

Abstract

Kirigami is a framework built on top of QML and QtControls2. It aims to make it easier for applications to implement a modern design language for both desktop and mobile systems, providing features that base QML and QtQuickControls don’t have.

Within the KDE project, our main goal (front and center) is and has always been to provide a top-notch desktop experience, even though recently we are interested in mobile as well. QWidgets is a very complete desktop UI framework, but unfortunately, it’s quite behind the times. Mostly based on software rendering and with and also outdated looking look and feel of its components. On the other hand, QML is a fully-featured modern graphics engine for 2D GUI perfect for mobile and embedded user interfaces, but still somewhat lacks in components and features that traditional desktop productivity applications need.

Kirigami aims to make the life easier for the developer to build good looking QML-based desktop (and not only) applications. This talk will go over the architecture of Kirigami, the challenges in QML that we worked around, and challenges that are still unsolved problems.

Marco Martin

Marco Martin started contributing to KDE in 2008 and has been an active contributor ever since. currently, he is the maintainer of the Kirigami framework and co-maintainer of the KDE Plasma Desktop.

He currently works for Blue Systems currently serving as CTO.

Slides

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