Yes, it's certain we'll drop qt4 support once 0.8 is out. Paulo, thanks for working on this. The KWindowSystem port is really cool and we've been talking about it for a while but nobody stepped up to do it until now :) Please keep in mind it won't make 0.8 however. But we should be releasing that any time now. J. Leclanche
2014-09-05 18:53 GMT+02:00 PCMan <pcman...@gmail.com>: > On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 12:22 AM, Paulo Lieuthier > <paulolieuth...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hello developers and contributors, >> >> I'm porting LXQt to KWindowSystem, and it's lookg nice so far, even though >> KWindowSystem is not 100% complete. I've ported lxqt-panel entirely, except >> for the keyboard indicator and the system tray. >> >> I'll soon send a WIP PR to get comments and help. Now what I want to ask is >> whether Qt4 will still need to be supported when the move to KWindowSystem >> happens. If it is agreed to drop it, it'll make the work a little easier for >> I'm trying to get rid of all xcb/Xlib calls. >> >> So, what do you guys think of it? >> >> Paulo Lieuthier > > My vote is for dropping Qt4 and supporting Qt5 only. with some exceptions: > > 1. qtxdg (this can still be very useful for most qt4 programs) > 2. pcmanfm-qt (well, I'm willing to maintain that.) > > KDE 5 already moved to Qt5, so all new distros shipping KDE should have Qt5. > Previously I suggest keep Qt4 because Qt5 is very buggy. > However, we already found workarounds for all of the critical bugs. > So now everything works as usual in Qt 5. > Moreover, Qt developers are working on fixing the bugs I've reported. > One of the most critical bug will be fixed before Qt 5.4. > So basically LXQt can run on Qt5 without significant problems. > Maintaining two code paths is time-consuming as this doubles the time > of testing. > I'd say Qt5 only. > Others? > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Slashdot TV. > Video for Nerds. Stuff that matters. > http://tv.slashdot.org/ > _______________________________________________ > Lxde-list mailing list > Lxde-list@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lxde-list ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Slashdot TV. Video for Nerds. Stuff that matters. http://tv.slashdot.org/ _______________________________________________ Lxde-list mailing list Lxde-list@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lxde-list
