Enrico Forestieri wrote:
On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 07:24:17PM +0200, Jean-Pierre Chretien wrote:
If a Qt3 frontend was provided, I will be using LyX 1.5 on solaris,
as that is not the case, I will be still sticking with 1.4 for the
time being. With that attitude you may scare away users of alternative
systems, which often can't even have the third last released version.
I fully agree with this.
In addition on Solaris 8 I get spurious messages about the lyx
temporary whenever I cut, paste, and close
(see my previous thread about this).
I am perfectly frustrated to see the striking new
features of lyx-1.5 blurred by the bad implementation of qt4 on Solaris.
I'd just like to point out that many of these features would have never
happened on the qt3 port. Pretty sure of that.
The last 4.3.0 version seems unable to register font changes.
Before trying to compile LyX with it, I'd like to be sure that
configure with
env LD_OPTIONS=-R/usr/local/lib ./configure -release -qt-gif \
-platform solaris-g++ -prefix /usr/local/qt-4.3.0
is OK.
Any hint ?
I don't think that you will get any help from this list.
The queer fish that is not using the mainstream platforms, or
that is not using the latest versions of the various libraries,
better change his system to conform to the imposed conditions.
Someone will explain him that this is how open source works, so
he could try to get commit privileges in order to try to adjust
things for his platform, but unless he has a very thick skin, I
do not recommend it.
You are misinterpreting my words Enrico. I'd never say we should not
help users with "exotic" systems. I am only saying that I am personally
not qualified for this request. If I can help, I'll help, so are maybe
99% of the developers here. But I am not going to invest time
investigate this Solaris issue.
Jean-Pierre, if you have problem with Qt, then I suggest to report this
to the Qt-interest mailing list. There is a news interface too. My
experience is that they are pretty responsive.
Abdel.
