[Interest] Mac App Store submission issues

[norulez at me.com]

Hi,

Thanks for the great summary. :-)

I'm not sure which one is already done, but I think I saw the changes for "File open/save dialogs" and/or the "Global Qt settings" problem already in the Qt 4.8 sources.

There is also an issue with macdeployqt. For example when my app make use of QtCore, QtGui and QtXml and after i run macdeployqt, then there are also QtNetwork, QML and QtSvg related frameworks packaged which isn't correct and aren't necessary. This behavior is the same for plugins.

Nevertheless I think one more issue is the problem when an app gets updated from the Mac App Store as I already posted today. But here I'm not sure if the issue is from apple, Qt or from myself.

Best Regards

Am 15.02.2012 um 14:36 schrieb Matilainen Pasi <pasi.matilainen at digia.com>:

> Since the information about submitting Qt-based applications to the Mac
> App Store is scattered around in mailing lists and bug reports, I thought
> it would be good to gather a list of the known issues and any solutions to
> those issues. Here's the list of App Store-related issues that I am aware
> of:
> 
> - File open/save dialogs crash when the application runs in sandbox
> (QTBUG-21609). I have submitted a fix for this (based on Chris Meyer's
> earlier patch) in two parts, they are at
> https://codereview.qt-project.org/#change,16388 and
> https://codereview.qt-project.org/#change,16389. The fixes haven't been
> merged yet.
> 
> - Global Qt settings are stored in com.trolltech.plist, which doesn't
> conform with App Store requirements. A patch can be found in QTBUG-16549,
> and this has also been fixed in Qt 5. I am working on a fix for 4.8.
> 
> - QtWebKit uses private APIs. No solution for this, as far as I know.
> Apple also does not want to have 3rd party builds of WebKit in the App
> Store, so this one seems particularly difficult to resolve.
> 
> - Storage location paths do not conform to App Store requirements when a
> localized company or app name is used. Not a very common problem as far as
> I know, but there's a patch for this in QTBUG-16549.
> 
> - Hide/show menu items in application menu are not disabled correctly. It
> seems like this has been flagged somewhat randomly in App Store. A fix
> (not merged yet) is at https://codereview.qt-project.org/#change,16109.
> 
> - Code signing process. A good summary was posted on this list recently by
> NoRulez.
> 
> If anyone has had any other Qt-related issues with their application
> submissions, please share the information so that everyone can get a
> better overall view of the current situation.
> 
> -- 
> Pasi Matilainen
> Qt Commercial R&D
> 
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