Qt 4.8 on Wayland ?

[Abhijit Potnis]

Hi Thaigo,

On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 8:28 PM, Thiago Macieira
<thiago.macieira at intel.com>wrote:

> On sexta-feira, 14 de junho de 2013 12.53.25, Abhijit Potnis wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > As Qt 4.8 does support Platform Abstraction, is it possible to run Qt 4.8
> > on Wayland straight away.
>
> I made some progress over a year ago in backporting some of the changes
> from
> Qt 5 to Qt 4.8. But this was prior to Wayland 1.0 and there were some
> changes
> I never got in.
>
> You can see my branch here:
>  http://qt.gitorious.org/qt/thiago-intels-qt/commits/4.8-qpa-wayland
>
> > If not then we will have to back-port some of the features of Platform
> > Abstraction and more from 5.0 to 4.8, would that be possible ?
> >
> > If so what would be the best point to start off with ?
>
> Probably my branch above. I haven't built it in 15 months, so no
> warranties.
>
> But please note that QPA in Qt 4.8 is limited by itself. It was missing
> some
> functionality that a proper Wayland application would need. I really
> recommend
> you consider Qt 5.
>
> Since QPA was new in Qt 4.8, it means you must have started this project
> only
> recently. Since you're asking now, 6 months after the Qt 5.0 release (and
> 5.1
> is approaching), can we ask why the interest?
>

Thanks for the info. This helps a lot. I shall have a look into you branch,
and try building
the same as the first step.

:). I know Qt5.0 is already old ! It's my employers client who has this
requirement for
Qt 4.8 !


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