[gentoo-user] Qt5 X Qt4

2016-03-07 Thread Francisco Ares
Hello All. Although Qt 5 is at a stable version, not so many things have already migrated to this newer version. Even the new USE flags, qt4 and qt5 are still not completely capable to switch to the desired Qt version prior to building, as, for instance, "dev-util/cmake" and "app-doc/doxygen", I

Re: [gentoo-user] Qt5 - should I worry?

2016-01-07 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Mon, 04 Jan 2016, Peter Humphrey wrote: >On Sunday 03 January 2016 23:50:29 Neil Bothwick wrote: > >> I cannot work out the correct plural of initramfs! > >That's easy - it's initramfses. Well, it would be if there were any such >word as initramfs. :) Naahh, can't be. Must be "initramf

Re: [gentoo-user] Qt5 - should I worry?

2016-01-03 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 03 January 2016 19:10:36 Dale wrote: > Yea, I got tired of trying to figure out what was called what. The word > thingy hit me and I use it for the init thingys, thingies, and a few > other things now. Just don't get me started on hal again. That thingy > still pisses me off. I need

Re: [gentoo-user] Qt5 - should I worry?

2016-01-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 04 Jan 2016 00:08:21 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > I cannot work out the correct plural of initramfs! > > That's easy - it's initramfses. Well, it would be if there were any > such word as initramfs. :) Of course there is such a word, you just used it ;-) -- Neil Bothwick Someon

Re: [gentoo-user] Qt5 - should I worry?

2016-01-03 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 3 Jan 2016 15:24:35 -0600, Dale wrote: > >> I might add, this is why when I read a email, I try to put the most >> positive light on it. Sometimes even a native English speaker just >> doesn't quite get the right thing to come out. Add in spelling errors >> and such

Re: [gentoo-user] Qt5 - should I worry?

2016-01-03 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 03 January 2016 23:50:29 Neil Bothwick wrote: > I cannot work out the correct plural of initramfs! That's easy - it's initramfses. Well, it would be if there were any such word as initramfs. :) -- Rgds Peter

Re: [gentoo-user] Qt5 - should I worry?

2016-01-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 3 Jan 2016 15:24:35 -0600, Dale wrote: > I might add, this is why when I read a email, I try to put the most > positive light on it. Sometimes even a native English speaker just > doesn't quite get the right thing to come out. Add in spelling errors > and such or someone speaking English

Re: [gentoo-user] Qt5 - should I worry?

2016-01-03 Thread Dale
Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Saturday 02 January 2016 15:06:37 Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> "half as big again" means "50% larger than". > That is, take the original measure, add one-half of it again and you have > 1.5 x the original. > >> i.e. calculate 50% and add it, making the total 150%. >> It's a

Re: [gentoo-user] Qt5 - should I worry?

2016-01-03 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 03 January 2016 14:49:10 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 03 Jan 2016 11:44:37 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > I meant the size of the file. > > > > And now I want to add that using 1.5 x the space to represent far less > > information is a clear indicator of inefficiency. > > Efficien

Re: [gentoo-user] Qt5 - should I worry?

2016-01-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 03 Jan 2016 11:08:32 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > Welcome to Pedants Anonymous :) Come on Peter, pedants are anything but anonymous. We^H^HThey like to nit-pick from the rooftops :) -- Neil Bothwick Veni, vermini, vomui I came, I got ratted, I threw up pgpPk8KFTpIWc.pgp Descripti

Re: [gentoo-user] Qt5 - should I worry?

2016-01-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 03 Jan 2016 11:44:37 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > I meant the size of the file. > > And now I want to add that using 1.5 x the space to represent far less > information is a clear indicator of inefficiency. Efficiency is not everything, readability is often more important. Otherwi

Re: [gentoo-user] Qt5 - should I worry?

2016-01-03 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 02 January 2016 15:06:37 Alan McKinnon wrote: > "half as big again" means "50% larger than". That is, take the original measure, add one-half of it again and you have 1.5 x the original. > i.e. calculate 50% and add it, making the total 150%. > It's an English idiom, so don;t try to

Re: [gentoo-user] Qt5 - should I worry?

2016-01-03 Thread Mick
On Sunday 03 Jan 2016 11:44:37 Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Sunday 03 January 2016 11:08:32 I wrote: > > On Saturday 02 January 2016 12:45:09 Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > > On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 01:23:28PM +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > > > > you see here. And the qt5 screen shot is half as bi

Re: [gentoo-user] Qt5 - should I worry?

2016-01-03 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 03 January 2016 11:08:32 I wrote: > On Saturday 02 January 2016 12:45:09 Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 01:23:28PM +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > > > you see here. And the qt5 screen shot is half as big again as the > > > > > qt4. > > > > > > > > I don't quite

Re: [gentoo-user] Qt5 - should I worry?

2016-01-03 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 02 January 2016 12:45:09 Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 01:23:28PM +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > > you see here. And the qt5 screen shot is half as big again as the > > > > qt4. > > > > > > I don't quite get that. > > > > ?? > > Both images are the same size

Re: [gentoo-user] Qt5 - should I worry?

2016-01-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 02/01/2016 13:45, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 01:23:28PM +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > you see here. And the qt5 screen shot is half as big again as the qt4. >>> >>> I don't quite get that. >> >> ?? > > Both images are the same size. The usable content area in the

Re: [gentoo-user] Qt5 - should I worry?

2016-01-02 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 01:23:28PM +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > you see here. And the qt5 screen shot is half as big again as the qt4. > > > > I don't quite get that. > > ?? Both images are the same size. The usable content area in the qt5 screenshot is far from just half. Maybe the word

Re: [gentoo-user] Qt5 - should I worry?

2016-01-01 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 01 January 2016 11:33:32 lee wrote: > Peter Humphrey writes: > > I won't list all my objections here, but I have attached two screen > > shots of KMail: one in the standard qt4 KDE environment and the other > > in qt5. You can see how much less compact the qt5 version is, even > > after

Re: [gentoo-user] Qt5 - should I worry?

2016-01-01 Thread lee
Peter Humphrey writes: > I won't list all my objections here, but I have attached two screen shots of > KMail: one in the standard qt4 KDE environment and the other in qt5. You can > see how much less compact the qt5 version is, even after I've fiddled at some > length with fonts and qt tweaks

Re: [gentoo-user] Qt5 - should I worry?

2015-12-31 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 31/12/2015 15:37, Peter Humphrey wrote: >> I have not found a Qt5 theme that looks Qt4-esque, but it's totally >> > possible to do it. >> > >> > I think in your case, you should go back to Qt4 until a quality theme is >> > available for Qt5 that you like. Do keep in mind that Qt4 is already a >

Re: [gentoo-user] Qt5 - should I worry?

2015-12-31 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 31 December 2015 13:34:17 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 31/12/2015 13:19, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Hello list, > > > > I've built a separate system in spare partitions, using the > > desktop/plasma profile and the kde overlay, to see how I like it. > > > > I don't. > > > > I won't list

Re: [gentoo-user] Qt5 - should I worry?

2015-12-31 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 31 December 2015 12:34:26 Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 11:19:28AM +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > I won't list all my objections here, but I have attached two screen > > shots of KMail: one in the standard qt4 KDE environment and the other > > in qt5. You can see

Re: [gentoo-user] Qt5 - should I worry?

2015-12-31 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 31/12/2015 13:19, Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello list, > > I've built a separate system in spare partitions, using the desktop/plasma > profile and the kde overlay, to see how I like it. > > I don't. > > I won't list all my objections here, but I have attached two screen shots of > KMail: on

Re: [gentoo-user] Qt5 - should I worry?

2015-12-31 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 11:19:28AM +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > I won't list all my objections here, but I have attached two screen shots of > KMail: one in the standard qt4 KDE environment and the other in qt5. You can > see how much less compact the qt5 version is, > [...] > you see here. An

[gentoo-user] qt5

2014-11-14 Thread Michael Vetter
Hello, Recently I started developing on LXQT. As they are using Qt5 on their developing version I added Qt overlay and unmasked Qt5. I should add normally I am more the GTK applicatio user, running i3 as window manager. So Qt and its configuration are kind of new to me. Anyways, I got LXQT to ru

Re: [gentoo-user] Qt5

2014-11-12 Thread Andrés Becerra Sandoval
2014-11-12 12:46 GMT-05:00 Jc García : > 2014-11-12 11:37 GMT-06:00 siefke_lis...@web.de : >> Hello, >> >> i want install qt5 with the qt overlay. But i become message >> >> i686-pc-linux-gnu-g++ -Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,--gc-sections >> -fuse-ld=gold -o ../../../bin/moc .obj/moc.o .obj/preproc

Re: [gentoo-user] Qt5

2014-11-12 Thread Jc García
2014-11-12 11:37 GMT-06:00 siefke_lis...@web.de : > Hello, > > i want install qt5 with the qt overlay. But i become message > > i686-pc-linux-gnu-g++ -Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,--gc-sections -fuse-ld=gold > -o ../../../bin/moc .obj/moc.o .obj/preprocessor.o .obj/generator.o > .obj/parser.o .obj/

[gentoo-user] Qt5

2014-11-12 Thread siefke_lis...@web.de
Hello, i want install qt5 with the qt overlay. But i become message i686-pc-linux-gnu-g++ -Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,--gc-sections -fuse-ld=gold -o ../../../bin/moc .obj/moc.o .obj/preprocessor.o .obj/generator.o .obj/parser.o .obj/token.o .obj/main.o -L/var/tmp/portage/dev-qt/qtcore-5.4.

[gentoo-user] QT5: lxqt-meta-0.8.0.ebuild

2014-10-30 Thread James
For the (QT5) adventurists: https://github.com/gentoo/qt/tree/master/lxqt-base/lxqt-meta Bug details at: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=525410 enjoy! James