Suggestion for new subforum: 3rd party components

andre

I regulary see questions posted on using Qt with third party components, or with questions on such Qt based components. Perhaps we should put those in a forum of their own?

troubalex

Hmmmm. I don't know. Doesn't it make more sense to keep the questions in the forum dedicated to the platform the components are used on? Or wouldn't that affect the answer?

giesbert

It could make sense for a seperate forum, as those questions are sometimes not really Qt releated. And it would seperate Core from add ons etc.

andre

[quote author="Alexandra" date="1300028519"]Hmmmm. I don't know. Doesn't it make more sense to keep the questions in the forum dedicated to the platform the components are used on? Or wouldn't that affect the answer?[/quote]
I am not sure I follow what you are saying here.

Perhaps I did not make myself clear. We get questions here on using Qwt, for instance. Qwt is of course Qt based, so I guess it kinda makes sense that we get questions like these. We also get questions on how to integrate lib X (not really Qt based) with Qt, such as the OpenVT questions posted in the last couple of days. It is these kinds of questions I was talking about.

troubalex

I see. I think we're talking past each other here.

My thinking is the following:
Someone wants to use a 3rd party for a project on a certain platform. I assume, there are different add-ons that solve different problems on the various platforms, embedded vs desktop for example.

And don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to be difficult here. All I do is figuring out if the add-on questions do not make most sense in the platform forums. Particularly, if they are about integrating lib foo with a certain Qt based project.