[Interest] Experience with Qt 5 RC 1 on Mac OS X 10.8

[Till Oliver Knoll]

Hello all,

first many thanks and a huge congratulation to the team and all the 
efforts spent on finalising Qt 5!

First and foremost: since my last experiments with Qt 5 (Beta 1) I've 
seen HUGE IMPROVEMENTS with regars to graphics: So far I did not see ANY 
graphics glitch (such as parts of the main window not being redrawn 
etc.) in my own application!

There are a few minor points, such as in a property dialog the close 
button is not activated anymore (probably a question of setting the 
proper window flags which might have changed semantics now) or the file 
dialog does not return to the "last known location" (QSettings 
related?). But I need to confirm in my own code first before creating a 
corresponding issue (which for sure would be no deal-breaker for the 
upcoming final Qt 5).

There are however two more points:

* What is the status of the "native Mac toolbar"? I remember that this 
is a separate ongoing project - any news about that?

* A bit more troublesome: gestures seem to be completely gone from 
QGraphicsView! I support pinch ("zoom") and rotate gestures (again, I 
need to check my own code first - however it does compile, as before in 
Qt 4.8 with respect to gesture support), however my items do not react 
to either gesture anymore

* In Qt Creator 2.6, the help system does not show any HTML rendered 
pages anymore, but I remember having read somewhere (Qt Blog?) that 
QtWebKit still has issues (to be build?) on Mac, so this must be a know 
issue already.


Especially I wonder about gesture support on QGraphicsView - is this a 
known issue/work in progress? Is this supposed to work?



Apart from that I'd like to repeat how painless it was (coding-wise) to 
port my application from Qt 4.8 to 5.0. All code was straight-forward to 
replace by the corresponding Qt 5 API (and there were very little such 
changes). To be more specific: I have a small-sized application 
consisting of QWidgets ("side-bar", a few dialogs), QGraphicsView/Scene, 
drag and drop, QImage related graphics operations, XML parsing, project 
consists of several libraries, file operations.


Cheers, Oliver