This QML thing is a super easy way to create modern UIs. Not only does it provide excellent layout and alignment features that as designers we care so much about (right?), it also has animations, interactions (response to mouse actions, etc.) and much much more. For our purposes as a visual design group, I think it's a great way to create anything from static mockups to much more interactive ones.

But before I go any further, here is what I think QML is not:

• A required skill for participation here.
• The one "right" way to share your visual design ideas. A picture of a sketch on a piece of paper will always be just fine thanks. As is any method other you feel comfortable with, including using the Mockup toolkits already available.

So if you're interested in learning a little bit about QML, Qt has provided a great tutorial here:
http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5/qml-tutorial.html

If you want to try your hand at it I recommend installing the latest version of Qt Creator from your distro repos. It comes with some great QML(Qt Quick) examples you can play with. Here is a great QML tutorial from Qt on using Qt Creator to create something with QML:
http://qt-project.org/doc/qtcreator-3.0 ... ation.html

I'm learning about QML right along with you, so we can ask questions here and learn a new skill together.

Hope this helps!

P.S. The neat thing is, the story for KDE applications looking forward is that more and more applications will use QML for their actual UI code. Which means designers with a little bit of QML awareness will be able to talk in a similar language with developers.

Awesome idea to open up this thread!

There is an interesting series of tutorials on YouTube, I´ve found useful when playing around with QML for the first time:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4utTBc ... Z0XOHu9tu6
Actually I´m at part 21

And the QML book http://qmlbook.org