[QGIS-Developer] MacOS and touchbar

[Nyall Dawson]

On Sat, 23 Feb 2019 at 07:34, Nyall Dawson <nyall.dawson at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi list,
>
> This is just a heads up for any MacOS developers -- there's been some
> upstream work recently on Qt and handling the MacOS touchbar. There's
> two separate pieces of work here:
>
> 1. A (proposed) upstream Qt class - QMacTouchBar. Read more here:
> https://www.kdab.com/qmactouchbar-has-landed/
> Looks good in that it's intended to be part of the Qt library.

FWIW - this PR was shut down and won't be included in Qt. Basically
the maintainers do not see the point of supporting single-platform
features like this in Qt.

If anyone is still interested in implementing this in QGIS, there's
also https://github.com/msorvig/qt-touchbar for inspiration.

Nyall


>
> 2. QtCreator's own implementation of touchbar handling - see
> https://code.qt.io/cgit/qt-creator/qt-creator.git/commit/?id=3c5650e514d6d8bad86a54a037e550db7cc19a71
> This one actually looks a lot nicer then QMacTouchBar, because it
> allows for "nested" touchbars based on QAction.
>
> If any MacOS developers* are motivated, I'd suggest [2] could be
> pulled into the QGIS mac native library and used throughout QGIS.
>
> Nyall
>
> ( * I'm neither a mac user nor a fan of the touchbar concept, so aside
> from this heads-up I personally won't be pursuing this further)