I have a patch for this but it was not accepted upstream: https://codereview.qt-project.org/82702
Can you use absolute path to qmlscene? Or, better, to qml (which is a successor to qmlscene)? -- Dmitry Shachnev Am 23.06.2014 18:23 schrieb "Sebastien Bacher" <seb...@ubuntu.com>: > Hey, > > Not sure if that has been discussed before, but current "qmlscene" > doesn't work on our default installation. > > Just as an example; taking a trusty iso, enabling universe and > installing ubuntu-ui-toolkit-examples leads to a non working gallery > desktop entry ... the command is a qmlscene one, and running "qmlscene" > returns an error about "/usr/lib/<...>/qt4/qmlscene" not existing. It's > not because that binary is using qt5. > > That issue also leads to click packages to fail to run on the > unity8-desktop iso, and I'm trying to see what's the right way to > resolve it... > > I've discussed the topic a bit on IRC and the advices/replies include: > - qmlscene is a dev tools and shouldn't be used by those applications > - you should change the environment/export a variable to make qt5 the > default (seems to be what ubuntu-touch does) > - install qt5-default ... but that would bring some extra 50MB on the iso > > We could make unity8-desktop-session export the environment variable > needed to have qt5 default, but that's a workaround and would mean those > are still buggy. > > Is there any reason qtchooser doesn't check for available versions, and > always prefer an installed one to the default if that one is not > available? It feels like that would be the right way to handle the > issue, but I might be overlooking something... > > One issue I can see, is that it would not resolve the case where qt4 > binaries are installed but the application is a qt5 ... maybe it's a bug > in the packaging of those applications and they should reference the qt5 > binary rather than qtchooser un-versionned command? > > Opinions? > > Cheers, > Sebastien Bacher > > > > -- > ubuntu-devel mailing list > ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel >
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