Thanks for pointing those out Bill, I did not have those helpers from the Qt 5 
Extras on my radar. Will check where we are with those.


Volker


> On 21 Oct 2022, at 23:18, Bill Jones <jo...@synergy.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Volker,
> 
> Another missing module in Qt 6.x that is very important to desktop 
> applications is clipboard support. 
> 
> https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-93632
> 
> Without cross platform (at least MacOS and Windows) we will never be able to 
> move from 5.15.x to Qt 6. This is an absolute necessity for us and I have not 
> seen any progress on this issue. I apologize if I seem a little strident, but 
> my questions to support have not gotten any movement on this.
> 
> Bill
> 
> 
>> On Oct 21, 2022, at 10:00 AM, Volker Hilsheimer via Interest 
>> <interest@qt-project.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 20 Oct 2022, at 22:35, Scott Bloom <sc...@towel42.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I haven’t been following the 6.x progress very much.  Only because it was 
>>> clear 6.0 and 6.1 were not ready to replace all the functionality of 5.x
>>> 
>>> However, with 6.4 it appears that all functionality that is going to be 
>>> brought forward, has been completed.  Is that true? Or is there sill chunks 
>>> of 5.x missing (that will be brought forward) ?
>>> 
>>> Scott
>> 
>> Hi Scott,
>> 
>> 
>> The only module that is not officially available in Qt 6 yet, and that we 
>> still want to bring back in some form, is Qt Location. Work is progressing 
>> on that module [1].
>> 
>> [1] https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-96795
>> 
>> There are some modules that currently live only in Qt5Compat, such as Qt 
>> Graphical Effects. We’re working on a replacement for that as well [2], 
>> addressing some of the deficiencies of it Qt Graphical Effects, but if you 
>> were happy with things in Qt 5, then the types in Qt5Compat as they are are 
>> perfectly fine to use.
>> 
>> [2] https://www.qt.io/blog/introducing-qt-quick-effect-maker
>> 
>> 
>> So, unless you depend on Qt Location, there’s no point in waiting. And if 
>> you do - we’ll soon share more updates on our blog.
>> 
>> Volker
>> 
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