Re: [Interest] Official linuxdeployqt ?

[Vadim Peretokin via Interest]

Just to correct some biases here, in my opinion as a software publisher
AppImage is still the simplest way for a user to run your app. 

To get Mudlet (a FOSS text games client) all you need to do is go to
https://www.mudlet.org/download, download the .tar, right-click to
extract it and double-click to run. 

It really is that simple; experienced and unexperienced users alike
across many different Linux distributions make it work.

Try to replicate that with snap or flatpak - you won't be able to
without messing in the terminal or relying on distro-specific
distribution channels. Nothing beats AppImage for a truly distro
agnostic image distribution format, and I'm speaking from having used it
for years to distribute my software.

BR

On August 8, 2022, Vadim Peretokin via Interest  wrote:
> On 8/8/22 16:09, Jörg Bornemann wrote:
> > Mitch already pointed you to QTBUG-74940.  The biggest question 
> > regarding a linuxdeployqt is: what exactly is the deployment format 
> > going to be?  There's no standard way of deploying Linux
> applications. 
> > There are many.
> >
> > The community contributions create AppImage packages.  That seems
> to 
> > be a reasonable choice.  Other opinions?
>
>
> Like Roland said, it has to be Flatpak. I haven't seen anyone talking 
> about AppImage in years, and Snap is too Ubuntu-specific.
>
>
> windeployqt doesn't package anything though, so should linuxdeployqt? 
> macdeployqt only sort of does, with its dmg support.
>
>
> Hamish
>
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[Interest] Accessibility: how to notify of new text in an unfocused widget?

[Vadim Peretokin via Interest]

Hi all,

I'm working on adding accessibility support for my Qt 5.15 application
and I need the screenreader to announce when a widget that is outside of
the screenreaders focus receives new text.

In the web world, this is solved with live regions
. I'm not able to find
them in Qt's documentation and JIRA suggests that they are not supported
. 

How can I go about solving this in my application? Also interested to
hear from those who ran up against this and how you solved this.

Ideally this could be dealt with application-side without modifying Qt,
as maintaining builds of Qt sources would be a large amount of overhead
for our open-source project.

Thanks,
Vadim
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