Bug#712938: Qt4 and sni-qt
On Friday 08 May 2015 10:24:30 Tsu Jan wrote: On Thu, 07 May 2015 11:28:28 -0300 Lisandro =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dami=E1n_Nicanor_P=E9rez?= Meyer perezme...@gmail.com wrote: - sni-qt seems to be dead-upstream: ... Uploading dead-upstream stuff to the archive doesn't seems a wise idea to me, so if anyone wants this in then jump in as sni-qt upstream. Or **much** better yet, just help porting the code to Qt5. sni-qt is only for Qt4 and needs a patch. As far as I know, no change will be needed with Qt5 = 5.4 for the systray icons to work. Right, that's why we recommend porting the apps to Qt5. sni-qt may be dead-upstream but Qt4 is so too and yet there are so many Qt4 apps. Indeed, and again: better if you port your app to Qt5 :) As mentioned above, Enlightenment already needs sni-qt for Qt4 apps to show their systray icons. Well, let them become upstream of sni-qt and we can reconsider :) -- I'm your worst nightmare. Eric S. Raymond to Craig Mundie Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer http://perezmeyer.com.ar/ http://perezmeyer.blogspot.com/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Bug#712938: Qt4 and sni-qt
On Thu, 07 May 2015 11:28:28 -0300 Lisandro =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dami=E1n_Nicanor_P=E9rez?= Meyer perezme...@gmail.com wrote: - sni-qt seems to be dead-upstream: ... Uploading dead-upstream stuff to the archive doesn't seems a wise idea to me, so if anyone wants this in then jump in as sni-qt upstream. Or **much** better yet, just help porting the code to Qt5. sni-qt is only for Qt4 and needs a patch. As far as I know, no change will be needed with Qt5 = 5.4 for the systray icons to work. sni-qt may be dead-upstream but Qt4 is so too and yet there are so many Qt4 apps. As mentioned above, Enlightenment already needs sni-qt for Qt4 apps to show their systray icons. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#712938: Qt4 and sni-qt
Hi everyone! As we are approaching the time when we will start having kf5 stuff in the archive and people will start wanting this feature in so they can use their Qt4 apps I thought it would be good to let you know some details of this package. So with my Qt-maintainer hat on: - sni-qt needs a patch in Qt4 not ACKed by upstream (although this might be just because the patch came too late in Qt4's lifetime). - We Qt maintainers do our best to just patch when there is a *real* good reason and upstream ACKs the patch. We do understand that this patch and sni-qt might be really somthing to consider, but apart from the above statements we have found other reasons to not consider sni-qt: - The patch is only required by sni-qt - sni-qt seems to be dead-upstream: * It received it last commit more three years from now: https://code.launchpad.net/~indicator-applet-developers/sni-qt/trunk.13.04 It actually had it's 3rd anniversary the day we released Jessie ;) * The bug list is: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sni-qt The most recent bug there has been opened in August last year, received priority high in December and is still open. Uploading dead-upstream stuff to the archive doesn't seems a wise idea to me, so if anyone wants this in then jump in as sni-qt upstream. Or **much** better yet, just help porting the code to Qt5. Regards, Lisandro. -- Simulations are not data. In God we trust, all the others must supply data. Walter Opyd, Show Me The Data IEEE Spectrum's reader's comments, http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/nov04/4004 Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer http://perezmeyer.com.ar/ http://perezmeyer.blogspot.com/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
