On Tue, Jan 06, 2015 at 01:06:15PM -0500, Geoffrey Hutchison wrote: > > > Are you talking about how the user should do this with respect to mouse > > button-drag and modifier keys? If so, it would be interesting to this > ... > > information above. > > Right now in Avogadro v2 (git master) you have to pick an edit or view > widget with a button, then open the file, etc. Compared to Avogadro > v1, this is a big hiccup for the user.
Oh I see. > >> For the render widgets I was also hoping to move to the new OpenGL > >> classes added in Qt 5.4 soon. > > Any good reason for doing this? > > For one, we can request OpenGL features (e.g., anti-aliasing, shaders, > etc.) in the widget rather than in main.cpp. It also ensures there's > always a frame buffer (e.g., for saving bitmap graphics) and that > multiple views of the same molecule can share OpenGL contexts. > > http://blog.qt.digia.com/blog/2014/09/10/qt-weekly-19-qopenglwidget/ Hrm, ok. > No, I don't think the transition is critical, but I also don't imagine > Avogadro 2.0.0 will be released until late summer or early fall, so > the timing should still work with distributions, right? Well, Debian 8 will ship sometime early next year with 5.3, and there won't be an Ubuntu LTS until 2016 (which will ship 5.4 I guess). I tried to see whether RHEL7/Scientific Linux 7 ship Qt5 at all and if so which version, but couldn't find anything off-hand. So the development versions of Debian/Ubuntu will include it by the time 2.0 ships I guess, but if you look for people to run it on a stable distro once it's out (either self-compiled or via 3rd-party packages or backports), that might be more difficult. Michael ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dive into the World of Parallel Programming! The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net _______________________________________________ Avogadro-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/avogadro-devel
