Qt 5.5 early look

[Timo Jyrinki]

Hi,

I've spent a bit of time with Qt 5.5 alpha since its release in March.
Here's the first screenshot of Ubuntu on it:
https://plus.google.com/+TimoJyrinki/posts/Jw6Tx9QhC7S - thanks to the
FTBFS bug fixers of maliit-framework, qtmir, unity8.

More information at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/QtTesting. WARNING:
Not for end-users of any kind, only for fixing bugs, anything can
break and the packaging is not proper. KDE Plasma 5 or Ubuntu SDK (Qt
Creator) don't work yet. Unity 8 on phone or desktop should be
testable.

At this point it's too early to talk about shipping Qt 5.5, and I
don't decide that. But what this partial alpha enables is starting to
file and fix bugs earlier than ever:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/+bugs?field.tag=qt5.5 - I've filed ~20
so far.

Upstream is 1.5+ months behind the schedule
(https://wiki.qt.io/Qt-5.5-release), so even though this early work is
useful, it's not necessarily going to be a fun ride to the feature
freeze again.

Looking beyond 5.5, I think it'd be nice to stay flexible about the Qt
version. If Qt 5.6 targets November, slips to mid-December like 5.4
did, we get .0 about ready January/February assuming no big
regressions and that's quite late for an LTS. The alternative to 5.6
would be to ship something like Qt 5.5.3 instead of the .0/.1
releases. Qt upstream has considered giving one of their release an
LTS status. If that'd happen to be 5.5, maybe it would make sense
for Ubuntu LTS too. But 5.6 would be a possibility as well, especially
if upstream would target and deliver nearer to October.

-Timo

-- 
ubuntu-devel mailing list
ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com
Modify settings or unsubscribe at: 
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel

Re: Window Controls on the Right Side

[Jan Rathmann]

Am 30.04.2015 um 02:32 schrieb Clint Byrum:

Excerpts from Martinx - ジェームズ's message of 2015-04-28 21:40:11 -0700:

On 28 April 2015 at 20:56, Mark Faine mark.fa...@gmail.com wrote:


I can understand if Ubuntu wants to be backward and contrary and default
the window controls to the wrong side for new installations, but why must
they force the issue.  From what I understand it is very difficult, to the
point of being impractical, to move them to the right side, due to
decisions that were made specifically to prevent it.  I don't understand
this kind of thinking.  Please give me the ability to put my window
controls on the correct (right) side.

Thanks



I am very happy with window controls on the correct (left) side.   :-P

It is close to the App's Menus (I don't need to travel the entire screen to
hit those buttons) and Unity left panel.

If I'm not wrong, with Ubuntu Teak Tools, you can do that, with Ubuntu
Gnome, you can do that, for sure.


The entire reason for them being on the left is to make the top-right
of the screen consequence free for a single click. This is to encourage
the user to dig into the indicators and to help developers inform users
easily in a uniform way.

Hate on it all you want, this is safer for new users, and it's almost
a perfect copy of one of the things that is actually good about OS X.

I've grown accustomed now, and I prefer it this way. :)



I also liked the decision that the window buttons moved to the left side 
by default. Before that time, I prefered closing windows by 
double-clicking on their window-menu-button (which was always on the 
left side), like you did it in Windows 3.11. And thus moving the window 
buttons became handy for me regarding this habit. Btw., I have never 
used a Mac.


My two cents ;-)

Kind regards,
Jan

--
Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list
Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com
Modify settings or unsubscribe at: 
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss