Moving forward on fixing bug 721938

Thu Apr 23 13:13:14 UTC 2015

On Thursday 23 April 2015 14:48:01 Rohan Garg wrote:
> Hey
> 
> > - snit-qt received it last commit almost three years from now:
> >   <https://code.launchpad.net/~indicator-applet-developers/sni-qt/trunk.13
> >   .04> (actually it will be three years old the day we release Jessie)
> 
> Probably because sni-qt is considered finished. I'm sure that's the
> case for many other projects out there.

Finished? Sorry, but looking at the bug list it doesn't seems finished.

> > - The bug list is:
> >   <https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sni-qt>
> >   The most recent bug there has been opened in August last year, received
> >   priority high in December and is still open.
> 
> Doesn't affect KDE, so it's not really relevant here tbh.

You mentioned VLC as an example: 
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sni-qt/+bug/859499

So, again:

> > So at very least I would require a nice and alive sni-qt upstream to even
> > consider patching Qt4.

[snip]

> Except that there are multiple opensource Qt 4 apps that use
> QSystemTray and will have a non functioning systray icon in Plasma 5.
> I really find the situation to be unacceptable in it's current form to
> be honest.

And I really find unacceptable to "solve" this with a stack of unmaintained 
software which clearly it's not in it's best shape. This wouldn't be a problem 
if it had someone taking care of it in the upstream side, of course.

So there are only two ways out here:

- Find someone to take care of sni-qt as upstream and then another one (or the 
same person) to take care of the package.

- Let people start porting their stuff to Qt5. Yes, this might be the most 
troublesome right now, but they will have to do it at some point.

-- 
Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
http://perezmeyer.com.ar/
http://perezmeyer.blogspot.com/
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