I use Frescobaldi on all of my Macs with slightly different operating systems. It works well, but I'm concerned about the future. Unfortunately, I'm not a programmer, so I can't contribute with coding. This is exciting, perhaps a bit too exciting, considering how we'll be able to continue with Lilypond. Is Frescobaldi the most common tool on Linux, or what do the majority of Lilypond users use?
Regards /MO > 28 apr. 2024 kl. 13:15 skrev Jean Abou Samra <j...@abou-samra.fr>: > > >> >> Doing some system updates today, I see that frescobaldi is the only program >> that requires PyQtWebEngine:5, which in turn requires qtwebengine:5. Looking >> at the frescobaldi page, I see a somewhat concerning note that the project >> is on the verge of being unmaintained, due to this dependency on a >> deprecated version of qtwebengine. >> >> Is there any further information on this? I don't see any other IDE that >> works as well as frescobaldi for editing lilypond files, and I'm a bit >> worried that there hasn't been an update to the program in over a year. Any >> news would be appreciated. > > > You've basically nailed the problem. I was the last person to work on making > Frescobaldi actually work on macOS, and I gave up by lack of time (NB: I > don't own a macOS machine, which of course makes all testing very difficult). > Currently, there is close to no activity on the project. > > I doubt Linux distributions are going to remove Qt 5 really soon, and the > Flatpak package can always provide it, but like every toolkit that's > end-of-life, it's only going to be a source of trouble going forward. For > example, Frescobaldi has some problems on Wayland (which is increasingly > becoming the default on the Linux desktop, for good reason) that are caused > by Qt 5 bugs fixed in Qt 6. I don't recall that anybody even attempted the Qt > 6 migration. > > Yes, if the current state continues, Frescobaldi will ultimately die a > natural death. Sorry that I cannot exactly bring an optimistic message here. > > Best, > Jean > > <signature.asc>
