[Interest] Qt 5 requirements: xcb or wayland required

[kate.alhola at nokia.com]

On Apr 11, 2012, at 11:19 PM, ext Nikos Chantziaras wrote:

> On 11/04/12 22:56, Carl Schumann wrote:
>> Qt 5 community,
>> 
>> I notice some documentation that states that the current Qt 5 Alpha
>> requires xcb or wayland.   Is this requirement expected to be relaxed in
>> future releases?
>> 
>> I am not an expert, so I don't really even understand what xcb or
>> wayland's role would be in Qt 5.   But I am at a shop that uses X11 and
>> I understand that xcb and wayland maybe newer alternatives to X11.
>> Unfortunately, retiring X11 would probably be a big issue around here.
> 
> xcb has been around for ages.  Almost everyone uses it, as it's an 
> improvement over plain Xlib.  It's still X11.  Using xcb does not mean 
> retiring X11.  Furthermore, Qt already uses xcb.  Just do:
> 
>   ldd /usr/lib/qt4/* | grep libxcb
> 
> (Or wherever you have the Qt libs installed.)  You'll probably see that 
> your Qt is using xcb already.

Least for Ubuntu 11.10 It requires installing Older 0.3.6 version of xcb-util
package because it did not work with Ubuntu current version 0.3.8

I needed add this 0.3.6 version to repository when I made Qt5 packages for 11.10

Kate