Re: hard-dep for Qt 4.8

2012-01-27 Thread Laszlo Papp
> To contribute to the actual question in this thread: I'd say let's support > both for now. And the responsibility is shared: developers should check for > "since 4.8" tags when looking at Qt api docs, and people using 4.7 to compile > kde must accept that they'll sometimes hit a breakage due to 4

Re: hard-dep for Qt 4.8

2012-01-24 Thread Thomas Lübking
Am 24.01.2012, 23:59 Uhr, schrieb Boudewijn Rempt : Yes, there's no difference. Try e.g. Choqok or Krita. First it shows a gray rectangle, then hides it, then shows the main window (as a gray rectangle) then paints the splash. This is new in Qt 4.8 and is not dependent on the style. Yupp,

Re: hard-dep for Qt 4.8

2012-01-24 Thread Boudewijn Rempt
On Tuesday 24 January 2012 Jan, Thomas Lübking wrote: > Am 24.01.2012, 23:53 Uhr, schrieb Boudewijn Rempt : > > > > For one thing... In Qt 4.8, QSplashScreen is broken. The splash is only > > painted over a gray rectangle once main window is shown. > > Tried with eg. plastique? (The background

Re: hard-dep for Qt 4.8

2012-01-24 Thread Thomas Lübking
Am 24.01.2012, 23:53 Uhr, schrieb Boudewijn Rempt : For one thing... In Qt 4.8, QSplashScreen is broken. The splash is only painted over a gray rectangle once main window is shown. Tried with eg. plastique? (The background gradient painting of oxygen/bespin/qtcurve could interfere with thi

Re: hard-dep for Qt 4.8

2012-01-24 Thread Boudewijn Rempt
On Thursday 19 January 2012 Jan, David Faure wrote: > On Wednesday 18 January 2012 10:26:13 Thomas Zander wrote: > > As far as I know there are no forward incompatible behavior changes between > > Qt4.7 and Qt 4.8 > > One can dream :-) ... > There might be more. > For one thing... In Qt 4.8, QSp

Re: hard-dep for Qt 4.8

2012-01-19 Thread Lamarque V. Souza
Em Thursday 19 January 2012, Giorgos Tsiapaliwkas escreveu: > On 19 January 2012 13:28, Lamarque V. Souza wrote: > > Strangely that Gentoo does not include an ebuild (package) for Qt 4.8. > > No,it does. You just have to add the qting-edge overlay. > > http://gitorious.org/gentoo-qt/qting-edge/t

Re: hard-dep for Qt 4.8

2012-01-19 Thread David Faure
On Wednesday 18 January 2012 10:26:13 Thomas Zander wrote: > On Wednesday 18 January 2012 10.11.58 todd rme wrote: > > But according to Martin, this isn't just about API changes, it is also > > about behavior changes. How do you expect people to know if they are > > relying on a Qt 4.8-specific be

Re: hard-dep for Qt 4.8

2012-01-19 Thread Giorgos Tsiapaliwkas
On 19 January 2012 13:28, Lamarque V. Souza wrote: > Strangely that Gentoo does not include an ebuild (package) for Qt 4.8. No,it does. You just have to add the qting-edge overlay. http://gitorious.org/gentoo-qt/qting-edge/trees/master/x11-libs/qt-gui -- Giorgos Tsiapaliwkas (terietor) KDE Dev

Re: hard-dep for Qt 4.8

2012-01-19 Thread Lamarque V. Souza
Em Thursday 19 January 2012, Martin Gräßlin escreveu: > On Wednesday 18 January 2012 12:53:25 Dario Freddi wrote: > > Let's try to move the issue another way > > round: can we think of a way in which we can safely make master depend > > on new stuff without the risk of hurting these categories? >

Re: Re: hard-dep for Qt 4.8

2012-01-19 Thread Giorgos Tsiapaliwkas
1.I understand the point "Qt 4.8 has new feature and we need them." but I don't understand the point "Qt 4.8 is difficult to be installed". As Martin said some of the most popular distros have packages for Qt 4.8.(The same applies for gentoo). Also for the distros that don't have Qt 4.8(note that

Re: Re: hard-dep for Qt 4.8

2012-01-19 Thread Martin Gräßlin
On Thursday 19 January 2012 08:52:48 Thomas Zander wrote: > On Thursday 19 January 2012 08.15.39 Martin Gräßlin wrote: > > > As far as I know there are no forward incompatible behavior changes > > > between Qt4.7 and Qt 4.8> I.e. AFAIK programming for 4.8 using 4.7 APIs > > > but 4.8 behavior will

Re: hard-dep for Qt 4.8

2012-01-18 Thread Thomas Zander
On Thursday 19 January 2012 08.15.39 Martin Gräßlin wrote: > > As far as I know there are no forward incompatible behavior changes > > between Qt4.7 and Qt 4.8> I.e. AFAIK programming for 4.8 using 4.7 APIs > > but 4.8 behavior will give > > the same behavior on 4.7. > What comes to my mind is mul

Re: Re: hard-dep for Qt 4.8

2012-01-18 Thread Martin Gräßlin
On Wednesday 18 January 2012 12:53:25 Dario Freddi wrote: > Let's try to move the issue another way > round: can we think of a way in which we can safely make master depend > on new stuff without the risk of hurting these categories? Yes of course. First of all we have to think whether we introduce

Re: Re: hard-dep for Qt 4.8

2012-01-18 Thread Martin Gräßlin
On Wednesday 18 January 2012 10:26:13 Thomas Zander wrote: > On Wednesday 18 January 2012 10.11.58 todd rme wrote: > > But according to Martin, this isn't just about API changes, it is also > > about behavior changes. How do you expect people to know if they are > > relying on a Qt 4.8-specific be

Re: hard-dep for Qt 4.8

2012-01-18 Thread Dario Freddi
2012/1/18 Thomas Zander : > On Wednesday 18 January 2012 09.05.32 Dario Freddi wrote: >> > if you remember there are a lot of people using KDE that are not 'core' >> > developers. Typically they are one-time developers, they are artists, >> > they are translators etc > [] > >> That said, I am in fa

Re: hard-dep for Qt 4.8

2012-01-18 Thread Thomas Zander
On Wednesday 18 January 2012 10.11.58 todd rme wrote: > But according to Martin, this isn't just about API changes, it is also about > behavior changes. How do you expect people to know if they are relying on a > Qt 4.8-specific behavior? As far as I know there are no forward incompatible behavio

Re: hard-dep for Qt 4.8

2012-01-18 Thread Thomas Zander
On Wednesday 18 January 2012 09.05.32 Dario Freddi wrote: > > if you remember there are a lot of people using KDE that are not 'core' > > developers. Typically they are one-time developers, they are artists, > > they are translators etc [] > That said, I am in favor of moving to Qt 4.8 for a simpl

Re: hard-dep for Qt 4.8

2012-01-18 Thread todd rme
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 8:54 AM, Thomas Zander wrote: > On Wednesday 18 January 2012 06.35.57 Martin Gräßlin wrote: >> I didn't say that this is a reason. I wanted to highlight the problem of >> not  depending on 4.8 and everybody using 4.8. I'm not going to start >> reviewing code for "is this a

Re: hard-dep for Qt 4.8

2012-01-18 Thread Dario Freddi
2012/1/18 Thomas Zander : > On Wednesday 18 January 2012 06.35.57 Martin Gräßlin wrote: >> I didn't say that this is a reason. I wanted to highlight the problem of >> not  depending on 4.8 and everybody using 4.8. I'm not going to start >> reviewing code for "is this a Qt 4.8 change". > > Martin, >

Re: hard-dep for Qt 4.8

2012-01-17 Thread Thomas Zander
On Wednesday 18 January 2012 06.35.57 Martin Gräßlin wrote: > I didn't say that this is a reason. I wanted to highlight the problem of > not depending on 4.8 and everybody using 4.8. I'm not going to start > reviewing code for "is this a Qt 4.8 change". Martin, if you remember there are a lot of

Re: Re: hard-dep for Qt 4.8

2012-01-17 Thread Martin Gräßlin
On Tuesday 17 January 2012 17:06:26 Allen Winter wrote: > On Tuesday 17 January 2012 11:34:19 AM Martin Gräßlin wrote: > > On Friday 13 January 2012 10:06:10 Thiago Macieira wrote: > > > On Thursday, 12 de January de 2012 22.50.24, Ingo > > > =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Kl�cker?=> > > > > wrote: > > > > If you

Re: hard-dep for Qt 4.8

2012-01-17 Thread Allen Winter
On Tuesday 17 January 2012 11:34:19 AM Martin Gräßlin wrote: > On Friday 13 January 2012 10:06:10 Thiago Macieira wrote: > > On Thursday, 12 de January de 2012 22.50.24, Ingo =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Kl=F6cker?= > > wrote: > > > If you want developers to switch to Qt 4.8 to get the KDE code better > > > test

Re: Re: hard-dep for Qt 4.8

2012-01-17 Thread Martin Gräßlin
On Friday 13 January 2012 10:06:10 Thiago Macieira wrote: > On Thursday, 12 de January de 2012 22.50.24, Ingo =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Kl=F6cker?= > wrote: > > If you want developers to switch to Qt 4.8 to get the KDE code better > > tested with this version of Qt then simply ask developers to do so. I > > s

[OT] Re: hard-dep for Qt 4.8

2012-01-15 Thread Ingo Klöcker
On Friday 13 January 2012, Shaun Reich wrote: > Some food for thought, as if this thread wasn't long enough...take a > look at how much discussion or rejection was given on the dependency > for Qt 4.7 back in 2010. > > i.e. nobody responded with objections or otherwise... > > http://lists.kde.org

Re: hard-dep for Qt 4.8

2012-01-13 Thread Shaun Reich
Some food for thought, as if this thread wasn't long enough...take a look at how much discussion or rejection was given on the dependency for Qt 4.7 back in 2010. i.e. nobody responded with objections or otherwise... http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-core-devel&m=128500348631281&w=4 -- Shaun Reich, K

Re: hard-dep for Qt 4.8

2012-01-13 Thread Ingo Klöcker
On Friday 13 January 2012, Thiago Macieira wrote: > On Thursday, 12 de January de 2012 22.50.24, Ingo > =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Kl=F6cker?= > wrote: > > If you want developers to switch to Qt 4.8 to get the KDE code > > better tested with this version of Qt then simply ask developers > > to do so. I see no

Re: hard-dep for Qt 4.8

2012-01-13 Thread Alexander Neundorf
On Friday 13 January 2012, Thomas Lübking wrote: > Am 12.01.2012, 22:50 Uhr, schrieb Ingo Klöcker : > > If you want developers to switch to Qt 4.8 to get the KDE code better > > tested with this version of Qt then simply ask developers to do so. I > > see no good reason to force developers to do so

Re: hard-dep for Qt 4.8

2012-01-13 Thread Thomas Lübking
Am 12.01.2012, 22:50 Uhr, schrieb Ingo Klöcker : If you want developers to switch to Qt 4.8 to get the KDE code better tested with this version of Qt then simply ask developers to do so. I see no good reason to force developers to do so. I tend to agree that KDE should not add hard deps for "ma

Re: hard-dep for Qt 4.8

2012-01-13 Thread Thiago Macieira
On Thursday, 12 de January de 2012 22.50.24, Ingo =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Kl=F6cker?= wrote: > If you want developers to switch to Qt 4.8 to get the KDE code better > tested with this version of Qt then simply ask developers to do so. I > see no good reason to force developers to do so. You know what ha

Re: hard-dep for Qt 4.8

2012-01-13 Thread Thomas Zander
fredagen den 13 januari 2012 10.10.58 skrev Mark: > +1 for putting a hard dep on it. > Reason: my distribution already has Qt 4.8 (Archlinux) and Qt doesn't > release new versions for nothing. It's new, generally better, thus should > be used. Mark, Qt is forward compatible and thus you can use 4

Re: hard-dep for Qt 4.8

2012-01-13 Thread Sebastian Kügler
On Wednesday, January 11, 2012 17:47:00 Shaun Reich wrote: > Prompting motion for making Qt 4.8 a hard dependency for KDE > 4.9/master. Currently kde-baseapps/plasma/folderview does not build > against 4.7 due to an (albeit minor) api usage. > > Not sure how other areas in KDE fair against this, m

Re: hard-dep for Qt 4.8

2012-01-13 Thread David Jarvie
On Fri, January 13, 2012 9:10 am, Mark wrote: > On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 9:00 AM, Thomas Zander wrote: > >> torsdagen den 12 januari 2012 22.50.24 skrev Ingo Klöcker: >> > If you want developers to switch to Qt 4.8 to get the KDE code better >> > tested with this version of Qt then simply ask deve

Re: hard-dep for Qt 4.8

2012-01-13 Thread Mark
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 9:00 AM, Thomas Zander wrote: > torsdagen den 12 januari 2012 22.50.24 skrev Ingo Klöcker: > > If you want developers to switch to Qt 4.8 to get the KDE code better > > tested with this version of Qt then simply ask developers to do so. I > > see no good reason to force d

Re: hard-dep for Qt 4.8

2012-01-13 Thread Thomas Zander
torsdagen den 12 januari 2012 22.50.24 skrev Ingo Klöcker: > If you want developers to switch to Qt 4.8 to get the KDE code better > tested with this version of Qt then simply ask developers to do so. I > see no good reason to force developers to do so. +1 -- Thomas Zander

Re: hard-dep for Qt 4.8

2012-01-12 Thread Hugo Pereira Da Costa
On 01/13/2012 12:12 AM, Hugo Pereira Da Costa wrote: Personally, I think making Qt4.8 mandatory for KDE4.8 without strong reasons to do so raises the barrier a bit too high for casual contributors willing to fix bugs. I personally find Qt harder to compile than kde and am quite reluctant to upd

Re: hard-dep for Qt 4.8

2012-01-12 Thread Hugo Pereira Da Costa
Personally, I think making Qt4.8 mandatory for KDE4.8 without strong reasons to do so raises the barrier a bit too high for casual contributors willing to fix bugs. I personally find Qt harder to compile than kde and am quite reluctant to update, just to be able to still fix bugs in oxygen. H

Re: hard-dep for Qt 4.8

2012-01-12 Thread Ingo Klöcker
On Thursday 12 January 2012, Marco Martin wrote: > On Thursday 12 January 2012, Martin Gräßlin wrote: > > Our distributions will ship 4.8 together with 4.8 and this > > combination might just be untested by the maintainers. So I > > strongly suggest that we make Qt 4.8 a dependency for master just

Re: hard-dep for Qt 4.8

2012-01-12 Thread Marco Martin
On Thursday 12 January 2012, Martin Gräßlin wrote: > Our distributions will ship 4.8 together with 4.8 and this combination > might just be untested by the maintainers. So I strongly suggest that we > make Qt 4.8 a dependency for master just to get the code tested and fixed > before distros use it.

Re: Re: hard-dep for Qt 4.8

2012-01-12 Thread Shaun Reich
On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 9:09 AM, Martin Gräßlin wrote: > I don't think there is a feature which is a good reason, but a "bug". I am > quite sure that there are still some issues around q_delete_all and the other > changes in Qt 4.8 causing regressions. > Our distributions will ship 4.8 together

Re: Re: hard-dep for Qt 4.8

2012-01-12 Thread Martin Gräßlin
On Wednesday 11 January 2012 17:38:11 Allen Winter wrote: > On Wednesday 11 January 2012 11:47:00 AM Shaun Reich wrote: > > Prompting motion for making Qt 4.8 a hard dependency for KDE > > 4.9/master. Currently kde-baseapps/plasma/folderview does not build > > against 4.7 due to an (albeit minor) a

Re: hard-dep for Qt 4.8

2012-01-11 Thread Allen Winter
On Wednesday 11 January 2012 11:47:00 AM Shaun Reich wrote: > Prompting motion for making Qt 4.8 a hard dependency for KDE > 4.9/master. Currently kde-baseapps/plasma/folderview does not build > against 4.7 due to an (albeit minor) api usage. > > Not sure how other areas in KDE fair against this,