I hope Qt6 will be backwards compatible with Qt5, or KDE will get another total rewrite just like with Plasma 5.
It might be possible for KDE to fork Qt5, backport security fixes and maybe some important features from Qt6, and not rewrite the whole desktop again, but that is unlikely to happen.
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Originally posted by Vasant1234 View PostAnd of course QT6 will be a new API incompatible with QT5 and developers will be scrambling to rewrite their applications to the new API. Is it any wonder that Linux desktop is not going anywhere ?.
But Windows still has the most market share on the desktop side, so apparently developers accept MS's behavior. So why wouldn't they accept it on Linux either then?
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What was decided at QtCS2017 was that Qt 5 is fine and we won't see Qt 6 in the next 3 or 4 years, so hold your horses
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Originally posted by Luke_Wolf View Postso we'll see how much it causes issues this time around.
To me this looks like unnecessary complications since either way you have to touch both libs and apps with the new version. Relying only on qt (instead of libs like a middleman) means you'd have to touch just one thing.
Or am I wrong?
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Sounds to me that API/ABI changes should not be significant, at least not for most common stuff.
Please stop dreaming about abandoning Qt containers and using STL, it is just no gonna happen. You need to be backward compatible. Just don't use them in new projects..
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And of course QT6 will be a new API incompatible with QT5 and developers will be scrambling to rewrite their applications to the new API. Is it any wonder that Linux desktop is not going anywhere ?.
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Originally posted by Vistaus View Post
Sorry, my bad. I didn't mean to make it sound like "people on Phoronix". I was talking about various places on the internet, including Phoronix. But yeah, birdie is one of them.
I can't speak to elsewhere on the internet you might be thinking of though so I'll have to assume you're correct about them pushing that nonsense, in which case I condemn them for being idiots. if that's the particular stance they're taking.because the situation is much more nuanced than that.
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Originally posted by andreano View PostKDE users: Yet another new major version? Nooooooonot again!!!
(For each new Qt major version, the KDE devs have started all over and created nothing like the previous KDE version.)
Ohh KDE, why do you make my life soo complicated....
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i'd like KDE to get much better at supporting Wayland . KDE really needs to move with the times, if Gnome4 is gonna drop its reliance on x11 so should KDE
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Originally posted by Luke_Wolf View Post
Since when has anyone complained about GNOME being rewritten? And no you can't quote birdie or some other nut.
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