Akademy/2025/Ask the Qt Team Anything

Question, comments and answers session hosted by Qt team (mainly Volker and Fabian)

Points that were brought up included

• ListView accessibility => mostly handled in the Accessibility BoF earlier that day
• AutoText handling (with potential security implications)
  • most likely impossible to change the default
  • global opt out was discussed (but might be an issue with libraries)
  • qmllint check to at least warn about it
  • preventing at least network resource fetch as an option (but needs discussion)
• Wishes for Quick Controls
  • double SpinBox
  • More Date/Time Controls (beyond Calendar)
• Why isn't there a locale value type
  • nobody did the work so far, but it's probably a good idea
• Has there been an update on font based icons
  • see https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/qicon.html#creating-an-icon-from-a-theme-or-icon-library and https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/qicon.html#ThemeIcon-enum
  • on some platforms, the system theme sources icon from a system font (if available) by default
• Can QAction and QQuickAction be aligned more
  • TODO item for Qt company
• What can KDE do for Qt?
  • post more about porting from Widgets to QML, about using Widgets and QML at the same ime
  • post more about porting experience from 5 to 6 to show that it wasn't as hard as it might be perceived (not like 3 to 4)