[Interest] Qt 5 requirements: xcb or wayland required
kate.alhola at nokia.com
kate.alhola at nokia.com
Wed Apr 11 22:32:13 CEST 2012
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
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