On 07/14/2018 02:59 AM, Daniel wrote:
> On 07/07/2018 00:07, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote:
>> OK, I finally found some time to mess with this again. A new version of
>> the installer has been uploaded to
>> http://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/2.3.0/.
>>
>> The problem with spellcheck was because some dictionaries were supposed
>> to be installed by default, but there was no actual provision for
>> including them in the package, from what I can tell. Special sauce, I
>> guess. There were also some major problems downloading dictionaries
>> during the installation. The URLs were simply wrong. I fixed that and
>> simplified some of the code.
>>
>> Finally, there was the 'style' issue. We now install the
>> qwindowsvistastyle.dll file, as Enrico suggested. Apparently, it is new
>> in Qt 5.10 that these are separate files [1]. That's why the old
>> installer worked, I guess. It was built with 5.9.x. Anyway, I have
>> verified that starting LyX with:
>>
>> LyX2.3.exe -style windows
>> LyX2.3.exe -style windowsvista
>>
>> give different results.
>>
>> Please test, and hopefully we can finish with this next week
> Is there a reason why Qt 5.10 instead of 5.11 was used? Qt 5.11 seems
> to have a nice fix for windows users:
> https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-43190
Qt 5.10 is what mingw currently provides on Fedora.
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