Re: [wsjt-devel] Linux change for continuity

Gotcha. Thanks for the clarification. On Wed, Jan 13, 2021, 3:53 PM Bill Somerville wrote: > Hi Dave, > > that's a different concept, it is the environment variable > QT_STYLE_OVERRIDE that allows the Qt look and feel style to be controlled. > Which BTW is another good reason not to force the st

Re: [wsjt-devel] Linux change for continuity

Perhaps it's a desktop "thing".  The majority of paid versions of Enterprise Linux use the Gnome desktop, unless otherwise specified by the purcheser.  The vast majority of hams use the tinker toy (freebie) versions of Linux.  Versions where the entire world has their hands in everything, along

Re: [wsjt-devel] Linux change for continuity

Hi Dave, that's a different concept, it is the environment variable QT_STYLE_OVERRIDE that allows the Qt look and feel style to be controlled. Which BTW is another good reason not to force the style by changing the desktop launching file since setting via the command line option means that us

Re: [wsjt-devel] Linux change for continuity

Why not use an environment variable instead of a command line argument? Variable QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME works for me. On HamPi, it exports QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=cleanlooks -- Dave Slotter, W3DJS On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 10:33 AM Bill Somerville wrote: > Hi Jeff, > >

Re: [wsjt-devel] Linux change for continuity

Hi Jeff, OK, so we have to ask the package maintainers why they are forcing the Qt fusion style, we have never recommend it unless there is a specific problem with the native styling. Perhaps it was done to work around a problem where the distro folks has messed around so much with Qt that it

Re: [wsjt-devel] Linux change for continuity

The problem is you have Red Hat Enterprise, Oracle Enterprise, Fedora, and CentOS pulling from the same repository with that line as modified.  So... for example:  When a user has 2.2.2 installed from the repository, then builds the 2.3.0 RCx version from scratch.  They end up with two differen

Re: [wsjt-devel] Linux change for continuity

On 13/01/2021 14:41, Jeff Stillinger via wsjt-devel wrote: File: wsjtx.desktop Change line 5 FROM:  Exec=wsjtx  TO: Exec=wsjtx --style="fusion" It took me a while to figure out why my local builds looked different from those I found in the pre-built repositories.  I was waiting to mention thi

[wsjt-devel] Linux change for continuity

File:   wsjtx.desktop Change line 5 FROM:  Exec=wsjtx  TO: Exec=wsjtx --style="fusion" It took me a while to figure out why my local builds looked different from those I found in the pre-built repositories.  I was waiting to mention this at the next RC cycle to make it easy to correct.   Chang