[Interest] Problems porting to Qt5

[Nikos Chantziaras]

On 04/01/13 21:37, R. Reucher wrote:
> On Friday 04 January 2013 20:22:30 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>> On 04/01/13 15:59, Thiago Macieira wrote:
>>> On sexta-feira, 4 de janeiro de 2013 13.47.13, Marcelo Estanislau Geyer
> wrote:
>>>> I have an application that is compiled to Qt4.8.3 and I am interested in
>>>> porting to Qt5. The problem is that I need to run this system and depend
>>>> on Kubuntu 11.10/12.04/12.10 of the KDE libraries, particularly
>>>> KFileDialog. When trying to compile I have the problem of "Can not mix
>>>> incompatible Qt library." I believe you can not compile for Qt5 if KDE
>>>> is not recompiled for Qt5, correct?
>>>
>>> Correct. You cannot use KFileDialog yet with Qt 5.
>>
>> I guess that's the downside when the native GUI for a platform is Qt
>> itself.
> The actual problem here is relying on KDE availability when what you really
> want/need is Qt (and nothing else). It's a bad idea anyway IMHO when you want
> to create platform independent applications, so I decided early on to never
> rely on KDE or anything else of that sort ;).
>
> I know this doesn't really help to solve the problem, but if you need KDE
> you'll have to wait for KDE (5) itself being ported and widely spread...
> AFAICT, this will be at least a year from now or so.

I'm not using anything from KDE, actually.  The application compiles 
just fine with Qt5.  The whole point is that Qt5 applications don't have 
a native look under KDE.