That is sad news about QT5. We can only hope it gets better soon.
On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 8:22 PM, PCMan <pcman...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I just tried to fix this last night.
> Now the lxqt-qtplugin and lxqt-common components are updated.
> The problem is caused by the lack of a default value of icon theme
> name and Qt5 behaves differently from Qt 4.8.
> Calling some private "internal" APIs of Qt5 is required to update the
> icon theme.
> Otherwise it won't apply the new settings.
> I consider this yet another regression of Qt5 since this is not a
> problem in Qt 4.8.
> I tried to fix it to some degree, but not all of the issues can be
> solved due to design problems of Qt5.
> Please try them.
> To be honest, Qt5 is not as exciting as expected.
> It removed quite some X11 related features from Qt4 and provided no
> replacement, just like what gtk+ 3 did.
> There are minor differences intertnally making it behave differently
> from Qt4 in various areas and it's undocumented.
> I'm forced to dig into the source code of Qt5 to find out the
> solutions (mostly workarounds & dirty hacks).
> It's not a problem for desktop app developers, but it's a huge
> headache for DE developers since we touch the low level parts quite
> often.
> That's unfortunate.
>
> On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 2:54 AM, Jerome Leclanche <adys...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > FWIW this issue was reported here as well:
> > https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1431264#p1431264
> >
> > I'm not seeing it.
> > J. Leclanche
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 7:52 PM, Patrice Esclapion <esclap...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> I verified :
> >>
> >> Have you installed the latest lxqt-common package?
> >>
> >> Yep, it's the last of AUR : lxqt-common-git 0.7.0.8.g45f55ff-1
> (2014-06-28
> >> 17:32)
> >>
> >>
> >> Do you have any error messages if you run pcmanfm-qt from the console?
> >>
> >> None.
> >>
> >> My icon set is well in pcmanfm, but not displayed. If I choose another
> >> iconset, apply, it appears. If I change again to mine, it's displayed,
> and
> >> remains so until the next reboot.
> >>
> >> I did a copy of my home at start, and compared to my home (diff -r)
> after
> >> that, but absolutely no change. Or it's stocked at another place, or
> >> something has been unblocked.
> >>
> >> (sorry for my bad english)
> >>
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >>
> >> Patrice
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> 2014-06-29 15:12 GMT+02:00 PCMan <pcman...@gmail.com>:
> >>
> >>> On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 6:27 PM, Patrice Esclapion <
> esclap...@gmail.com>
> >>> wrote:
> >>> > Some feedbacks :
> >>> >
> >>> > A blocking regression in pcmanfm-qt. When it opens, no icons : we
> must
> >>> > change twice to get them. And at the next reboot, same thing. I can
> not
> >>> > find
> >>> > a trick to solve it, seem to be in the cache ? We had this problem
> in an
> >>> > earlier version.
> >>>
> >>> Have you installed the latest lxqt-common package?
> >>> Do you have any error messages if you run pcmanfm-qt from the console?
> >>> I'll look into this issue next week.
> >>>
> >>> > The font size is very small in pcmanfm and in the Menu. How to adjust
> >>> > them,
> >>> > please ?
> >>> The font is controlled by the Qt platform theme plugin, but our plugin
> >>> is incomplete and did not implement font handling.
> >>> I tried to implement that, but after that, all of my Qt programs
> hanged.
> >>> The platform plugin support of Qt is completely undocumented and there
> >>> is no tutorial for it.
> >>> I have to read the source code of Qt to figure out how to do it
> >>> correctly and this takes much time.
> >>> There seems to be some weird behavior of the Qt platform plugin
> >>> mechanism as not all of the settings
> >>> are applied. The Qt4 plugin has similar issues.
> >>> Working with Qt platform plugin is a real pain, but I'll try to
> >>> workaround the problems.
> >>> Cheers!
> >>>
> >>> > 2014-06-29 0:21 GMT+02:00 Patrice Esclapion <esclap...@gmail.com>:
> >>> >
> >>> >> Hi,
> >>> >>
> >>> >> Congratulations to the team ! I changed all the lxqt qt4 modules by
> >>> >> the
> >>> >> news qt5 (from AUR), generated an ISO lxqt pure, and all works.
> >>> >>
> >>> >> Some little changes, but nothing bad for the moment.
> >>> >>
> >>> >> Great work, thanks.
> >>> >>
> >>> >>
> >>> >>
> >>> >> 2014-06-28 19:30 GMT+02:00 Jerome Leclanche <adys...@gmail.com>:
> >>> >>
> >>> >>> Everything is merged in now!
> >>> >>>
> >>> >>> I'm updating the AUR packages to use Qt5.
> >>> >>> J. Leclanche
> >>> >>>
> >>> >>>
> >>> >>> On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 1:49 PM, PCMan <pcman...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> >>> > Hello,
> >>> >>> > I just ported the remaining small pieces of LXQt to Qt5.
> >>> >>> > Now I'm running a full Qt5 LXQt desktop.
> >>> >>> > Please see the Qt5 status page for more detail.
> >>> >>> > https://github.com/lxde/lxde-qt/wiki/The-Status-of-Qt5-Porting
> >>> >>> >
> >>> >>> > Some changes are still in pull requests and haven't been merged
> yet.
> >>> >>> > So please help test and review them.
> >>> >>> > Once they can be merged, we can announce full Qt5 support for
> LXQt.
> >>> >>> >
> >>> >>> > (p.s.: The new Qt5 platform plugin lxqt-qtplugin still requires
> more
> >>> >>> > work since some Qt settings are still missing.)
> >>> >>> >
> >>> >>> > Cheers!
> >>> >>> >
> >>> >>> >
> >>> >>> >
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