Today I spotted this post about Qt widget rendering in OpenGL on the Trolltech blog. You can read it, or you can just watch the video:
It links to another post, which already describes features that would be sufficient for an experiment. What Samuel Rødal shows in his posts would mean basically all Qt widgets would be able to render to an arbitrary OpenGL surface. This suggests it would be interesting to experiment with Qt integration in Spring. Basically any GUI toolkit would be a huge improvement over the current GUI of Spring, and the fact that we'd get it for free with even a company (Nokia) backing it, would be a huge bonus.
Besides a replacement for Spring's native GUI, LUA bindings could be supplied to allow LUA widgets and gadgets to create a consistent look and feel throughout the engine, no matter whether a piece of functionality is hardcoded in the engine or supplied by a LUA script.
Could this mean the end of the "Bermuda GUI"?
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