[Development] New Qt 5.2 snapshot build #172

Knoll Lars Lars.Knoll at digia.com
Tue Nov 26 16:57:12 CET 2013


I have to agree with Thiago. I tried the install on a retina mac book/10.9
two weeks ago, and the installer looked extremely ugly. It simply doesn¹t
make for a good first impression.

Cheers,
Lars

On 26.11.13 16:22, "Thiago Macieira" <thiago.macieira at intel.com> wrote:

>On terça-feira, 26 de novembro de 2013 14:55:52, Koehne Kai wrote:
>> > FYI, installer font is still messed up on OSX 10.9. I have tried to
>>find
>> > the original bug report but only found QT 4.8.x reports marked fixed:
>> > https://bugreports.qt-project.org/browse/QTBUG-33049
>> > https://bugreports.qt-project.org/browse/QTBUG-32789
>> > https://bugreports.qt-project.org/browse/QTBUG-31803
>> 
>> Well, they're fixed for Qt 4.8.6, which isn't released yet. Not sure we
>> should start cherry-picking because of it... The bug reports sound like
>> it's just a minor ugliness (though I haven't seen it live yet).
>
>This is the first thing users see. It will detract from the perception of
>Qt's 
>quality. And it's not like we didn't know about this -- we just failed to
>put 
>two and two together.
>
>How difficult is it to cherry-pick the fixes into the installer framework
>build?
>
>-- 
>Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
>  Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center




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