[gentoo-user] What happened to Qt 5?

[gentoo-user] What happened to Qt 5?

[Nikos Chantziaras]

Wasn't it supposed to hit portage a long time ago? Any news? There's 
zero information on the http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/qt site.

Re: [gentoo-user] What happened to Qt 5?

[Alan McKinnon]

On 27/05/2014 07:32, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> Wasn't it supposed to hit portage a long time ago? Any news? There's
> zero information on the http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/qt site.
> 
> 
> 
> 



Last I heard it was still in the kde overlay and when it moves to
portage new categories qt-* will be created; probably to avoid
clobbering qt4 and confusing kde ebuilds.

I read that on a blog somewhere recently, probably planet. And as usual,
I can't find it now when I look for it

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Re: [gentoo-user] What happened to Qt 5?

[Pandu Poluan]

On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 12:32 PM, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@gmail.com> wrote:
> Wasn't it supposed to hit portage a long time ago? Any news? There's zero
> information on the http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/qt site.
>
>

I see many blockers in the "[TRACKER] Qt5 in portage" bug [0].

I do believe the KDE project team monitors Qt5-in-tree closely [1].


[0] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=454132
[1] http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:KDE/Frameworks


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Re: [gentoo-user] What happened to Qt 5?

[wireless]

On 05/27/14 00:40, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> Wasn't it supposed to hit portage a long time ago? Any news? There's
> zero information on the http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/qt site.


I run lxde on one desktop; and my experimental results are nothing short 
of fabulous. A while back they (LXDE and razor-qt projects)  decided to 
merge and support QT5. [1] If you have a spare desktop, you might want 
to experiment with QT5 via LXDE-QT [2].


I have not inquired when "LXDE-QT" known also as LXQT will formerly 
appear in portage; I can't remember where I read rumblings about it.
I have just now looked for an overlay [3].

I do like the new (old_school?) approach of LXde and it's resource 
footprint is very, very small.  qt is a fine piece of work; I have
issues with the KDE "vision" and LXQT seems to be reading my mind
on what a gui environment should and should not do, imho.

Lightweight X means it could and should run in many places, easily and 
securely, like in a VM environment, tablets, etc etc.


hth,
James


[1]  http://wiki.lxde.org/en/Migrate_from_GTK%2B_to_Qt

[2] http://wiki.lxde.org/en/Build_LXDE-Qt_From_Source

[3] https://github.com/mika-k/lxqt-overlay

Re: [gentoo-user] What happened to Qt 5?

[john]

On Tue, 27 May 2014 12:47:07 -0500
wireless@tampabay.rr.com wrote:

> On 05/27/14 00:40, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> > Wasn't it supposed to hit portage a long time ago? Any news? There's
> > zero information on the http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/qt
> > site.
> 
> 
> I run lxde on one desktop; and my experimental results are nothing
> short of fabulous. A while back they (LXDE and razor-qt projects)
> decided to merge and support QT5. [1] If you have a spare desktop,
> you might want to experiment with QT5 via LXDE-QT [2].
> 
> 
> I have not inquired when "LXDE-QT" known also as LXQT will formerly 
> appear in portage; I can't remember where I read rumblings about it.
> I have just now looked for an overlay [3].
> 
> I do like the new (old_school?) approach of LXde and it's resource 
> footprint is very, very small.  qt is a fine piece of work; I have
> issues with the KDE "vision" and LXQT seems to be reading my mind
> on what a gui environment should and should not do, imho.
> 
> Lightweight X means it could and should run in many places, easily
> and securely, like in a VM environment, tablets, etc etc.
> 
> 
> hth,
> James
> 
> 
> [1]  http://wiki.lxde.org/en/Migrate_from_GTK%2B_to_Qt
> 
> [2] http://wiki.lxde.org/en/Build_LXDE-Qt_From_Source
> 
> [3] https://github.com/mika-k/lxqt-overlay
> 

lxqt is up and running in Gentoo. It's listed in packages.
The only problem I had was emerging lxqt-panel but just had to change a use flag of lxqt-panel from quicklauch to
-quicklaunch and it emerged. No problems with anything else and desktop
is good.



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John D Maunder