KDE backward compatibility issue

2015-01-30 Thread Vasily Khoruzhick
Hi, I'd like to rise KDE backward compatibility issue once again. I've read [1] and [2] and as far as I understand, dropping xembed support was more political decision than technical difficulty. Please kindly understand that breaking applications for users is a no-go. I'd like to remind a situati

Re: KDE backward compatibility issue

2015-01-30 Thread Vasily Khoruzhick
On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 6:02 PM, Christoph Feck wrote: > On Friday 30 January 2015 11:41:42 Vasily Khoruzhick wrote: >> I've read [1] and [2] and as far as I understand, dropping xembed >> support was more political decision than technical difficulty. Hi Christoph, > I a

Re: KDE backward compatibility issue

2015-01-30 Thread Vasily Khoruzhick
On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 8:04 PM, Martin Graesslin wrote: Hi Martin, > Patches welcome. If you think it's important and that trivial you should be > able to do it, right? Well, my area of expertise is embedded, kernel drivers and bootloaders. But OK, I'll try to implement a xembed tray widget. I

Re: KDE backward compatibility issue

2015-01-30 Thread Vasily Khoruzhick
On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 8:14 PM, Thomas Lübking wrote: > On Freitag, 30. Januar 2015 18:04:03 CEST, Martin Graesslin wrote: Hi Thomas, > What he suggests is to add a spacer into a panel and move a root parented > XEmbed override_redirect container there. > That's trivial enough (the spacer only

Re: KDE backward compatibility issue

2015-02-04 Thread Vasily Khoruzhick
Hi Sebastian, On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 8:15 PM, Sebastian Kügler wrote: > > There are patches for Qt < 5.4 around which are have been shipped by various > distributions for quite some time. Martin's blog, which you linked from your > initial email, links them: > > http://blog.martin-graesslin.com/b

Re: KDE backward compatibility issue

2015-02-04 Thread Vasily Khoruzhick
Hi Milian, On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 9:04 PM, Milian Wolff wrote: > > If these apps link against Qt5 statically (which they can, assuming they pay > the license fees to Digia), then they will need to recompile and release an > updated version. If otoh they just ship they own set of libs and adapt >

Re: KDE backward compatibility issue

2015-02-04 Thread Vasily Khoruzhick
On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 9:57 PM, Milian Wolff wrote: > "Every application"? You mention two. Well, at least these two are affected. I can also mention tuxguitar which uses Java and SWT, however I don't care about its tray icon. > And if they, or others, don't care about > us, why should we go o