since LXQt is coming soon, the brave may appreciate this…
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Nicholas Skaggs <nicholas.ska...@canonical.com> Date: Thu, May 7, 2015 at 9:01 AM Subject: Fwd: [Ubuntu-phone] Qt 5.5 early look To: "ubuntu-qual...@lists.ubuntu.com" <ubuntu-qual...@lists.ubuntu.com> For those who might want to play around with QT, 5.5 is interesting and full of issues to find! -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [Ubuntu-phone] Qt 5.5 early look Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2015 11:51:00 +0300 From: Timo Jyrinki <timo.jyri...@gmail.com> To: ubuntu-devel <ubuntu-de...@lists.ubuntu.com>, ubuntu-ph...@lists.launchpad.net Hi, I've spent a bit of time with Qt 5.5 alpha since its release in March. Here's the first screenshot of Ubuntu on it: https://plus.google.com/+TimoJyrinki/posts/Jw6Tx9QhC7S - thanks to the FTBFS bug fixers of maliit-framework, qtmir, unity8. More information at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/QtTesting. WARNING: Not for end-users of any kind, only for fixing bugs, anything can break and the packaging is not proper. KDE Plasma 5 or Ubuntu SDK (Qt Creator) don't work yet. Unity 8 on phone or desktop should be testable. At this point it's too early to talk about shipping Qt 5.5, and I don't decide that. But what this partial alpha enables is starting to file and fix bugs earlier than ever: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/+bugs?field.tag=qt5.5 - I've filed ~20 so far. Upstream is 1.5+ months behind the schedule (https://wiki.qt.io/Qt-5.5-release), so even though this early work is useful, it's not necessarily going to be a fun ride to the feature freeze again. Looking beyond 5.5, I think it'd be nice to stay flexible about the Qt version. If Qt 5.6 targets November, slips to mid-December like 5.4 did, we get .0 about ready January/February assuming no big regressions and that's quite late for an LTS. The alternative to 5.6 would be to ship something like Qt 5.5.3 instead of the .0/.1 releases. Qt upstream has considered giving one of their release an "LTS" status. If that'd happen to be 5.5, maybe it would make sense for Ubuntu LTS too. But 5.6 would be a possibility as well, especially if upstream would target and deliver nearer to October. -Timo -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to : ubuntu-ph...@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp -- Ubuntu-quality mailing list ubuntu-qual...@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-quality -- @wxl | http://polka.bike Lubuntu Release Manager, Head of QA Ubuntu PPC Point of Contact Ubuntu Oregon LoCo Team Leader Ubuntu Membership Board Member Eugene Unix & GNU/Linux User Group Co-Organizer -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-qa Post to : lubuntu-qa@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-qa More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
