Qt delta

[Sune Vuorela]

On Monday 05 November 2007, Jonathan Riddell wrote:
>   * Merge with Debian, remaining changes:
>    - No firebird/ibase build (remove build-dep, control entry, ibase
>   ./configure option), firebird is not in Ubuntu main

I guess we don't want to adopt this part - we have firebird available.

>    - install qtrc (change rules, qtrc file) and qt_plugins_3.3rc
>    - add /etc/ to libqt3-mt and install qtrc qt_plugins_3.3rc

Sounds reasonable. Let us try see what happens

>    - Add kubuntu_04_xinerama.dpatch from
>   http://ktown.kde.org/~seli/xinerama/

seli usually knows what he does - and the patch looks non-intrusive. Let us 
ship it.

>    - Add kubuntu_06_fglrx_0_size_screen.dpatch work around fglrx
>   reporting a 0 size screen.
>      Closes
>   https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qt-x11-free/+bug/81686

urgh. looks hackish but non-intrusive. I would prefer fglrx to fix it, but I 
guess we can work around it.

>    - Add kubuntu_07_font_default_subst.dpatch from Dirk Muller,
>      should fix rendering of CKJ and other characters

I don't know much about this. it changes some stuff I have too little clue 
about.

>   * Add kubuntu_05_gcc_hidden_visibility.dpatch from
>     http://bugs.kde.org/attachment.cgi?id=13069&action=view
>     on http://bugs.kde.org/109386, I am promised GCC won't break
>   things this time

It basically just adds __attribute__((visibility("default")))  to some things. 
I dunno. Don't know too much about -fvisibility.


/Sune

>
> Patches at http://kubuntu.org/~jriddell/tmp/qt3/ along with
> qt_plugins_3.3rc qtrc which set a nice theme in the corner case that
> users have KDE bits installed but are running Qt only apps.
>
> The visibility patch isn't well tested except for the last times where
> I used it and it added a number of very random bugs, I'm promised that
> with GCC 4.2 it'll work better but I'm remaining skeptical for now.
>
> Jonathan



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