On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 11:00 PM, Kevin Krammer <kram...@kde.org> wrote:
> On Saturday, 2013-11-16, 19:56:44, PCMan wrote:
> > Hello,
> > After some research, I found that we can utilize the Qt GUI platform
> plugin
> > to integrate Qt apps with our DE. For example, the 3rd party Qt apps can
> > use the icon theme we specified by default.
> > Hence I added a new component, lxqt-qtplugin.
> > This will install a plugin in /usr/lib/qt4/plugins/gui_platform.
> > By exporting QT_PLATFORM_PLUGIN=lxqt, we can ask Qt to load our plugin
> for
> > every Qt programs, including the 3rd party ones.
>
> You probably don't have to create your own QPA, at least not in Qt5.
>
> The QPAs purpose is to do the plaform abstraction, e.g. X11, Wayland,
> Windows,
> Mac, etc.
>
> The QPA itself can make of further extension points, which is currently
> used
> for KDE and GNOME integration. See QPlatformTheme.
>
> Cheers,
> Kevin
>
> Thank for the tip. I'm aware of that.
However QPlatformTheme is a work in progress and is Qt5 only.
So currently a platform plugin is still wanted.
Many Qt programs are not yet ported to Qt5.
Besides, some distros are well known for their slow upgrade, such as Debian.
It can takes 1-2 years for the new Qt versions to enter a debian stable
release.
> --
> Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
> KDE user support, developer mentoring
>
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