On Wednesday 04 March 2009 07:36:45 pm Pierre Schmitz wrote: > Hi all, > > I just have put Qt 4.5 into testing. It should be compatible to 4.4 in most > aspects. But we should have a look at the qt apps and see if anything > broke. > > For example Psi crashes on typing a message when spell cheking was enabled. > This could be easily fixed by recompiling it. > > QtCurve has some problems with the rendering of tabs. But I expect an > updated version soon. > > KDE itself seems to work fine. But there might be some rendering problems > especially with plasma. > > The main problem was phonon: > * Qt has its own version of phonon included > ** it is slightly different to the one provided by KDE > ** KDE cannot compiled against this version (can be fixed by a symlink to > the right include dir) > * The Qt version only supports the gstreamer backend > ** gstreamer seems borken. It is able to play ogg etc. but fails on > mpeg/mp3 (I have every plugin installed)
There is something wrong with your system then, I just pacman -S gstremer0.10-plugins and I have support for mpeg/mp3. So this is weird to me. > * one could enable phonon in qt but remove the relevant files after > install. With some symlinking magic and moving files arround this might > even work. ** But this would introduce a circual dependency; phonon and qt > depend on each other > * So, for now phonon is disabled within Qt. The downside is that video > support in webkit is disabled, too. But webkit seems to only work with > gstreamer anyway. > > Well, that's the current status. If anyone has a good idea about this let > me know.
