On 10 October 2016 at 23:35, Kevin Funk <kf...@kde.org> wrote: > On Monday, 10 October 2016 22:56:11 CEST Jaroslaw Staniek wrote: > > On 11 July 2016 at 18:20, Kevin Funk <kf...@kde.org> wrote: > > > Heya, > > > > > > we used to have this problem where KIO slaves forked off from a process > > > caused > > > console windows to pop up on Windows. > > > > > > This is now resolved. > > > > > > All started here: > > > https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/124905/ > > > > > > ... then ended up in a Qt bug report (which got fixed by me later on): > > > https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-53833 > > > > > > Patch here: > > > https://codereview.qt-project.org/#/c/162585/ > > > > > > tl;dr: Fixed in Qt 5.8.0. > > > > > > Hi Kevin > > Heya, > > > After a while: I think forcing to skip Qt LTS and going for 5.8.0 is not > > practical. > > Well, you can always patch Qt? > > > > > Are users of KIO and alike forced to patch KF5 to remove unwanted "black > > windows"? > > Emerge applies that patch to qtbase already. So when you use Emerge, your > issue is fixed. > > Regarding upstream: I didn't push it to anything below Qt 5.8 b/c it's a > behavioral change after all. Not a simple bug fix. > > > That would look like unfortunate for developer experience of KF5 on > Windows. > > That's what exactly I am facing (and in fact migrating away from dbus > too, > > thus decreasing my use of KF5 unfortunately on Windows). > > > Can we have a temporary fix at ECM of KF5 level (e.g. for Qt < 5.8.0)? > > I'm lacking the motivation/time do so unfortunately. I've already spent > significant amount of my time on this issue, not planning to continue. > > Thanks Kevin, Moved my opinion here, for the record: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/124905/#review99926
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