Re: [Development] Trouble getting reviews in months and years

2024-04-08 Thread Chris Adams
Hi, I have no horse in these particular races, but I am going to throw my 2c in regardless: In my opinion, 6 months or so delay on some reviews is fairly acceptable (there can be higher-priority items which take attention, it's understandable). But beyond that, especially if the contributor is ac

Re: [Development] Adding CPD support to Qt print dialog

2022-09-15 Thread Chris Adams
Hi Gaurav, First, I want to make clear: I know nothing about printing at all, either in Qt or in general. But I did a quick archive search and found the following: https://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/development/2020-May/039584.html On Fri, Sep 16, 2022 at 8:22 AM Gaurav Guleria wrote: > > He

Re: [Development] Leaving The Qt Company

2022-05-18 Thread Chris Adams
Hi Lars, Best of luck on your new endeavour! It was a pleasure working with you throughout the years. I think you have done a fantastic job ensuring that Qt has moved in a good direction in your capacity as Chief Maintainer. It is no easy task to balance commercial objectives as well as contributo

Re: [Development] Qbs development

2021-09-16 Thread Chris Adams
Hi, I'm not related at all to QBS development, but I am a maintainer of another module or two (add-on modules like QtPIM, QMF), and I've never noticed an "override review" button (similar to the "override sanity bot" button). Although I can't ever remember having seen a -2 in those modules, so may

Re: [Development] QString, QVariant and QSQLite

2021-05-26 Thread Chris Adams
Hi, On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 7:34 AM Alberto Mardegan < ma...@users.sourceforge.net> wrote: > On 26/05/21 23:31, Christian Ehrlicher wrote: > > Your observation looks correct even though I wonder why this was never > > found before since this was not changed since the initial Qt5 import :) > > Wha

Re: [Development] Status of the QtFeedback module

2021-05-05 Thread Chris Adams
Hi Aleix, Comments inline. On Thu, May 6, 2021 at 12:43 AM Aleix Pol wrote: > On Tue, Apr 27, 2021 at 2:28 AM Chris Adams > wrote: > > > > Hi Jonah, > > > > I'm not part of the Qt Company, so please consider my comments as > discussion only ;-) > &

Re: [Development] Status of the QtFeedback module

2021-04-26 Thread Chris Adams
Hi Jonah, I'm not part of the Qt Company, so please consider my comments as discussion only ;-) I'm the maintainer of the QtFeedback module, at least insofar as I am willing to review commits and keep things building. Sailfish OS uses this module, which is why I am still interested in keeping it

Re: [Development] Qt quick compiler impact on qmlbench.

2021-03-02 Thread Chris Adams
Hi, On Wed, Mar 3, 2021 at 7:08 AM Robin Burchell wrote: > On Tue, 2 Mar 2021, at 8:36 PM, Valery Volgutov wrote: > > Could you please let me know why I have no any performance improvements > > after quickcompiler apply? > > The QML compiler affects the performance of parsing and compiling the >

Re: [Development] QProperty and when evaluation occurs

2020-07-23 Thread Chris Adams
Hi, On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 5:17 AM Volker Hilsheimer wrote: > > On 23 Jul 2020, at 15:56, Stottlemyer, Brett (B.S.) > wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I'm still trying to wrap my head around this concept, and starting a new > thread to distinguish from the technical implementation discussion. > > >

Re: [Development] Debian packaging from Git snapshots (qtsystems, qtfeedback, qtpim)

2020-03-30 Thread Chris Adams
Hi Mike, On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 12:29 AM Mike Gabriel < mike.gabr...@das-netzwerkteam.de> wrote: > Hi Chris, > > On Di 17 Mär 2020 01:42:11 CET, Chris Adams wrote: > > >> [...] > > > > Potentially. The licensing of QtPIM only changed recently (in ter

Re: [Development] Debian packaging from Git snapshots (qtsystems, qtfeedback, qtpim)

2020-03-16 Thread Chris Adams
Hi, On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 8:49 PM Mike Gabriel < mike.gabr...@das-netzwerkteam.de> wrote: > Hi Chris, > > On Mo 16 Mär 2020 01:55:44 CET, Chris Adams wrote: > > > Hi Mike, > > > > On Sun, Mar 15, 2020 at 5:47 AM Mike Gabriel < > > mike.gabr...@

Re: [Development] Debian packaging from Git snapshots (qtsystems, qtfeedback, qtpim)

2020-03-15 Thread Chris Adams
Hi Mike, On Sun, Mar 15, 2020 at 5:47 AM Mike Gabriel < mike.gabr...@das-netzwerkteam.de> wrote: > Hi Chris, > > thanks for following up on my questions. > > On Fr 13 Mär 2020 01:32:24 CET, Chris Adams wrote: > > > Hi Mike, > > > > I don'

Re: [Development] Debian packaging from Git snapshots (qtsystems, qtfeedback, qtpim)

2020-03-12 Thread Chris Adams
Hi Mike, I don't know much / anything about QtSystems, perhaps Lorn has more information about that. I am currently the maintainer of QtFeedback and QtPIM, although the amount of time I have to spend on them is currently very limited, unfortunately. In regards to API and ABI stability: QtFeedback

Re: [Development] Removal of dead git submodules from qt5.git

2019-12-01 Thread Chris Adams
Hi Lorn, On Mon, Dec 2, 2019 at 11:03 AM Lorn Potter wrote: > > > > On 29/11/19 7:05 PM, Alex Blasche wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I would like to remove some of the ancient submodules from qt5.git. They > > never were part of the Qt 5 offering anyway and mostly we were not sure > > whether we reacti

Re: [Development] Removal of dead git submodules from qt5.git

2019-12-01 Thread Chris Adams
Hi Alex, Does this have any effect on CI for those submodules? Jolla uses QtDocGallery, QtFeedback and QtPIM, and have been upstreaming changes, and at least for QtPIM the CI has been useful in ensuring that changes don't cause issues on any platforms etc. Aside from that, I have no complaints ab

Re: [Development] QTCS2019 Notes from QtQml session

2019-11-26 Thread Chris Adams
On Mon, Nov 25, 2019 at 9:34 PM Ulf Hermann wrote: > > > I think one of the biggest problems is that ID resolution crosses > > file boundaries. This essentially means that the ids chosen can very > > easily become part of the "API" of a component unless you are very > > vigilant to not allow that

Re: [Development] Property bindings in Qt 6

2019-10-01 Thread Chris Adams
Hi Uwe, On Sat, Sep 28, 2019 at 9:29 PM Uwe Rathmann wrote: > > On 9/28/19 8:49 AM, Simon Hausmann wrote: > > > Instead of an idle timer, all imperative triggered onFooChange > > handlers are queued up and called right before the next frame. > > Property binding is not the only notification mecha

Re: [Development] Property bindings in Qt 6

2019-10-01 Thread Chris Adams
scope down to frame based rendering feels very > natural. > > I understand though that not everybody agrees on that, so perhaps this needs > to be an opt-in mechanism that we can enable for QtQuick. > > Simon > > > On 27. Sep 2019, at 03:51, Chris Adams wrote: > > >

Re: [Development] Property bindings in Qt 6

2019-09-26 Thread Chris Adams
Hi Simon, Nice work! This was one of the things which Aaron mentioned as being a goal he had for QML way back in the day, and I'm glad to see that someone is doing the work to make it a reality. In theory, one of the issues with pull-style bindings is that large dependency chains can be built up,

Re: [Development] Qt QML Maintainer change

2019-02-18 Thread Chris Adams
Thanks for all of your hard work, Simon! +1 for Ulf from me. On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 11:27 PM Simon Hausmann wrote: > > Hi, > > I'd like to step down as the maintainer of the Qt QML module and pass the > torch on to Ulf Hermann. > > He has been contributing to the module since 2013 with countle

Re: [Development] Orphan modules

2018-08-30 Thread Chris Adams
Hi Eddy, I'm willing to be listed as the maintainer of QtFeedback for now. If it ever gets more development attention and released as a supported module then someone with more time to give should probably take over, but until then I'm more than happy to review any changes people might contribute

Re: [Development] QTBUG-43096 - QML instantiation performance decadence

2018-05-31 Thread Chris Adams
On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 5:21 PM, Uwe Rathmann wrote: > Hi Simon, > >> I ran benchmarks comparing a release build of 5.12 against 5.1.1 and ran >> the benchmark mentioned in the task, where Qt 5.12 came out in average >> faster by a factor of 4. > > Christophers comment in the JIRA ticket raises so

Re: [Development] Repository request: HTTP server

2017-10-08 Thread Chris Adams
On Sat, Oct 7, 2017 at 2:21 AM, Harri Porten wrote: > > On Fri, 6 Oct 2017, Tomaz Canabrava wrote: > >> > We have recently been working on a research project looking into >> the possibilities for creating a lightweight server component that can >> easily enable Qt >> applications to se

Re: [Development] Behaviour change in QML in Qt 5.8 regarding null

2016-09-28 Thread Chris Adams
I'm certain that it's possible. I suspect the reason why the code used QVariant is that when it was originally written (in Qt 4.7 days, IIRC), QJSValue didn't exist, and it simply hasn't been ported to newer interfaces since then. Without knowing too much about the QML bindings in QtPIM, I am goi

[Development] Behaviour change in QML in Qt 5.8 regarding null

2016-09-18 Thread Chris Adams
Hi, Recently, a few unit test failures[1] in the (unreleased) QtPIM module showed that the recent change[2] which changes the semantics of null assignment (from JS) to a QVariant Q_PROPERTY can affect existing client code. Certainly, the cases which are affected are most likely edge-cases (that i

Re: [Development] QtQuick Call for Maintainer

2016-03-30 Thread Chris Adams
+1 from me too. www.qinetic.com.au - Qt And QML User Experience Specialists On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 7:43 PM, Eskil Abrahamsen Blomfeldt < eskil.abrahamsen-blomfe...@theqtcompany.com> wrote: > > > Den 09.03.2016 10:56, skrev Frederik Gladhorn: > >> We are in the luxury position of having two grea

Re: [Development] Proposed syntax change for pragmas and imports in QtQuick .js files

2015-02-16 Thread Chris Adams
Hi, On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 11:34 PM, Mike Verdone wrote: > Hi all, > > This is my first post to the Qt dev list. Apologies if I say something > dumb. > > I’d like to propose some changes to the “meta” syntax in QtQuick .js > files. I propose this in order to support JavaScript tools such as lin

Re: [Development] QtContacts - New class QContactCollection

2015-01-27 Thread Chris Adams
Hi Renato, On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 5:51 AM, Renato Araujo wrote: > Hi Cris, > > > > On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 10:17 PM, Chris Adams > wrote: > >> QContactType::TypeGroup is meant to represent a group of entities with >> shared contact details (eg, a local footba

Re: [Development] QtContacts - New class QContactCollection

2015-01-19 Thread Chris Adams
QContactType::TypeGroup is meant to represent a group of entities with shared contact details (eg, a local football club might have a mailing-list email address, a clubhouse phone number, etc). Individual contacts can have membership in groups (so various friends can be members of the football clu

Re: [Development] QML instantiation performance

2014-12-04 Thread Chris Adams
det: Donnerstag, 04. Dezember 2014 um 05:46 Uhr > Von: "Chris Adams" > An: "Gunnar Roth" > Cc: "Simon Hausmann" , " > development@qt-project.org" > Betreff: Re: Re: [Development] QML instantiation performance > > Hi Gunnar, > Can you ge

Re: [Development] QML instantiation performance

2014-12-03 Thread Chris Adams
arative\src/quick/util/qquickglobal.cpp > --- > D:\Temp\qt-everywhere-opensource-src-5.4.0-rc\qtdeclarative\src/quick/util/qquickglobal.cpp > 2014-11-24 16:01:08.0 +0100 > +++ qtdeclarative\src/quick/util/qquickglobal.cpp 2014-12-01 > 17:44:37.800986000 +0100 > @@ -980,6 +980,13 @@

Re: [Development] bundle support in QML

2014-12-02 Thread Chris Adams
Sure. I think there are advantages to be had from bundling, obviously, but those don't really exist right now. +1 from me. www.qinetic.com.au - Qt And QML User Experience Specialists On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 6:55 PM, Simon Hausmann < simon.hausm...@theqtcompany.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to

Re: [Development] QML instantiation performance

2014-12-01 Thread Chris Adams
I don't recall, but a quick grep of the git log turned up the following three changes: https://codereview.qt-project.org/#/c/60447/ https://codereview.qt-project.org/#/c/60446/ https://codereview.qt-project.org/#/c/60445/ I guess this was the most important bit: https://codereview.qt-project.org

Re: [Development] QML instantiation performance

2014-11-30 Thread Chris Adams
Hi Gunnar, Note that the results between versions may not be directly comparable. The benchmark does some very specific things, including destroying the engine and clearing all type registrations between each run. This is intended to simulate "application startup performance" conditions, but is

Re: [Development] QML instantiation performance

2014-11-30 Thread Chris Adams
ience Specialists On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 2:16 PM, Chris Adams wrote: > The loop was due to the QtQuick2 plugin's defineModule() code initializing > the value type providers on load, but not deinitializing them on dtor, > resulting in future loads of that plugin adding the same ptr t

Re: [Development] QML instantiation performance

2014-11-30 Thread Chris Adams
v 28, 2014 at 5:39 PM, Simon Hausmann < simon.hausm...@theqtcompany.com> wrote: > On Friday 28. November 2014 12.20.29 Chris Adams wrote: > > Hi, > > > > No worries. Interestingly, when I ran the benchmark against 5.3, I found > > that it hangs after perform

Re: [Development] QML instantiation performance

2014-11-27 Thread Chris Adams
take a day or two before I get to it). > > cheers, > Juha > > 2014-11-27 3:51 GMT+02:00 Chris Adams : > > Hi Juha, > > > > For some more light on this issue, are you able to run the > > qtdeclarative/tests/benchmarks/qml/librarymetrics_performance benchmark

Re: [Development] QML instantiation performance

2014-11-26 Thread Chris Adams
. Kind regards, Chris Adams. www.qinetic.com.au - Qt And QML User Experience Specialists On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 6:08 PM, Juha Vuolle wrote: > Hello, > > apologies for cross-posting. I find this such a fundamental issue that I > feel > at least having the best possible understand

Re: [Development] call for comments/review QSystemInfo::NetworkInfo API

2014-09-23 Thread Chris Adams
Hi Lorn, In regards to the publish/subscribe and serviceframework bits, I wonder what the plan is with those. How much overlap between them and Replicant is there? Perhaps Brett could quickly sum up the differences between the pub/sub module and the Replicant framework, and whether Replicant off

Re: [Development] Qt Location module

2014-09-23 Thread Chris Adams
Hi, My understanding is that the QtLocation module from QtMobility got split into separate modules: QtPositioning and QtLocation (although they're located within the same source repo in qt5 still, if memory serves). Aaron McCarthy has been actively maintaining the QtPositioning module, but QtLocat

Re: [Development] Contribution proposal: Dispatcher class

2014-09-23 Thread Chris Adams
Hello Yam, I can think of a couple of places in code I've written where that would be very useful, personally. However, when I looked at the repo I couldn't see any license information, and I'm wondering what license you're planning on releasing it under. Cheers, Chris. https://www.qinetic.com.

Re: [Development] [QML] Singletons are deleted before the other objects

2014-09-21 Thread Chris Adams
Hi, On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 10:37 PM, BogDan wrote: > Hello folks, > > Singletons registered using qmlRegisterSingletonType, are deleted > *before* > the other active objects. I consider it to be wrong because some of the > active > objects may still need to access the singletons in their dest

Re: [Development] QWebChannel setTimeout

2014-07-06 Thread Chris Adams
A long time ago there were plans to add https://codereview.qt-project.org/#/c/49155 but see the comments regarding context deletion and also https://codereview.qt-project.org/#/c/84341/ On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 4:07 PM, Hausmann Simon wrote: > I think setTimeout would be a good function to add to

Re: [Development] [QtContacts] Add a new contact Type

2014-03-17 Thread Chris Adams
Hi Renato, Is an address book a contactable entity? It seems like it's just a collection of contacts, rather than a contactable entity, in which case I would prefer something like the QOrganizerItemCollection API to be added to QtContacts instead, perhaps, or some other solution. To be more prec

Re: [Development] QtQml maintainer nomination

2014-01-19 Thread Chris Adams
Jumping on this bandwagon late because I was away on vacation, but +1 from me :-) On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 6:24 AM, Knoll Lars wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to continue on filling gaps in our maintainer list and thus want > to propose Simon Hausmann as the new maintainer for QtQml. Guess I don't > n

Re: [Development] Consistency in Qt headers (extends: 'renaming all QWindow properties that have "window" in them')

2013-09-03 Thread Chris Adams
Hi, I don't know about QtJsonDb but QtPim has a few people interested in it (Jolla for one, and Canonical for another). At the moment, development resources dedicated to improving it are somewhat limited, but that situation will change. If there's anything in particular which you think needs cha

Re: [Development] qmlbundle vs Qt Resource System

2013-08-12 Thread Chris Adams
Hi, On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 6:05 AM, André Pönitz < andre.poen...@mathematik.tu-chemnitz.de> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 08, 2013 at 08:18:00PM +0200, Olivier Goffart wrote: > > On Thursday 08 August 2013 08:59:26 Alan Alpert wrote: > > > I don't know specifically about why it wasn't built on top of QRC

Re: [Development] [QtPim] Pending Merge Requests

2013-06-26 Thread Chris Adams
Hi, Alex Blasche is looking at various QtAddOn modules which are evolutions of the old QtMobility modules. There's still some work to be done to determine which modules are candidates for improvement up to the point where they're releasable, and more work to be done to figure out how many communi

Re: [Development] QML engine changes

2013-06-24 Thread Chris Adams
Hi, This is really exciting news! Good stuff! > Hi, > > > > Does that include to get rid of v8 as an JS engine option for QML2? > > Yes, that's exactly the proposed change. > > > I have not tested it yet, but it would be interesting to know if the new > > engine also uses just in time compilatio

Re: [Development] 6 conflicting symbols between QtQuick 1 and 2

2013-04-23 Thread Chris Adams
qmlEngine() and qmlContext() are documented via qdoc comments in qqmlengine.cpp and should show up in the related functions section of the generated documentation. As you've noticed, however, for some reason the documentation does not show up in the generated documentation. I don't know why. Per

Re: [Development] Nominating Alan Alpert as QtDeclarative maintainer

2013-02-03 Thread Chris Adams
+1 from me. On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 1:45 PM, Martin Jones wrote: > Since the Nokia Brisbane office was closed QML/QtQuick has effectively > been maintainer-less. Recently Alan has been proactive in pushing QML > forward and has been very active in the community. He also has a long > history work

Re: [Development] abandoning stale changes on gerrit

2013-01-31 Thread Chris Adams
Hi, > > (https://codereview.qt-project.org/#change,46020) > > You are the only one who doesn't like that patch. Otherwise it could have > gone in before Qt 5.0. > > > https://codereview.qt-project.org/#change,39624 > > This patch is the opposite of the previous one, so only one will go in. > Bu

Re: [Development] Platform Content Selection

2013-01-09 Thread Chris Adams
Hi, This is an interesting topic. I'm not sure that I'm convinced by anyone's arguments so far, to be honest. More comments inline: > import paths can achieve basically what we want, so for example > high_res/bla.qml will override bla.qml if the path is something like > "high_res:." . > > This s

Re: [Development] QtQuick1 (Qt4 and Qt5)

2012-12-27 Thread Chris Adams
Hi, The primary purpose of having QtQuick 1 in Qt5 is compatibility, that > your "import QtQuick 1.1" QML works *as before* when you switch to Qt > 5. Work on QtQuick 1.1 which is not eligible for a Qt 4 patch release > is clearly unacceptable. The question of a QtQuick 1.2 is less clear, > but

Re: [Development] Enumerations in QML

2012-12-12 Thread Chris Adams
Hi, > This entire thread should be revisited after QTBUG-24799 is fixed. > > > > I disagree here, because > A) How much we like enums affects the effective priority of > QTBUG-24799 (it's the main usecase that it blocks) > True. Although it also affects instanceOf and Qt.createComponent, at the

Re: [Development] QML Runtime

2012-12-12 Thread Chris Adams
Hi, maybe there's a case for adding a small QQmlApplicationEngine in QtQml > which adds the application runtime aspects? > It's early and I haven't had my second coffee yet, so maybe I'm misunderstanding something, but are these application runtime aspects completely non-gui, non-QtQuick related?

Re: [Development] Enumerations in QML

2012-12-12 Thread Chris Adams
Hi, On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 10:51 PM, Charley Bay wrote: > Unto all so did sayeth Alan: > >> > What should enumeration declarations in QML look like? >> > > Did respondeth Erik: > >> And, also important: how much slower is it allowed to be than the current >> implementation? >> >> I remembered t

Re: [Development] Enumerations in QML

2012-12-11 Thread Chris Adams
Hi, I figured I weigh into this discussion: > But if you don't like those changes, you can do the var in a global > (.pragma library) script file and use that. Maybe this means proper > enum support isn't that urgent ;) . > It's not that the functionality is urgent; it's that currently, QML-doc

Re: [Development] Branching 5.0

2012-11-29 Thread Chris Adams
On a slightly unrelated note... >Because this should be up to module maintainers and there is not so much CI infrastructure to support all the projects under Gerrit Who are the module maintainers, these days? I really don't think that http://qt-project.org/wiki/Maintainers is up to date. Sorry f

Re: [Development] QML Tooling Renames (was: Pending decisions on co-installation)

2012-11-20 Thread Chris Adams
Hi, > There are two points I'd like to add to the discussion. Firstly qmlbundle > isn't > > really useful yet, I'd advocate moving it to the playground or somewhere > > outside the qtdeclarative module until it's done. > > I've been wondering about this too. There's zero documentation of it right

Re: [Development] QML Tooling Renames (was: Pending decisions on co-installation)

2012-11-20 Thread Chris Adams
Hi, [snip] Does anyone have any further feedback on QML tool renaming before > these get implemented? > +1 from me, but I don't mind if qmlbundle stays where it is as an undocumented, internal, no guarantees, tool, just because it's less effort. Cheers, Chris. __

Re: [Development] Pending decisions on co-installation

2012-10-31 Thread Chris Adams
On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 10:56 AM, Thiago Macieira wrote: > On quinta-feira, 1 de novembro de 2012 10.01.11, Chris Adams wrote: > > Regarding QML_IMPORT_PATH, I discussed this yesterday and this morning > with > > Martin Jones and Andrew den Exter, and a couple of things dese

Re: [Development] Pending decisions on co-installation

2012-10-31 Thread Chris Adams
Hi, On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 8:17 PM, Sune Vuorela wrote: > On 2012-10-30, Thiago Macieira wrote: > > 1) QML environment variables > > The variable for import paths has been versioned from QML_IMPORT_PATH to > > QML2_IMPORT_PATH. But I have not changed any of the other variables. We > need a > >

Re: [Development] [Interest] Current status of the co-installation

2012-10-29 Thread Chris Adams
Hi, [snip] > Question: qml2scene or qml2viewer? If no one speaks up, it will be > qml2scene. > The patches for that are ready, pending approval. > [snip] > > The relevant changes are: > Qt Quick 1 & 2: > https://codereview.qt-project.org/37104 (QQ1's imports with no > subdir) >

Re: [Development] QmlImportPath

2012-10-24 Thread Chris Adams
Hi, > we are still having problems with the QmlImportPath. There is also already > > a bug reported: > > > > https://bugreports.qt-project.org/browse/QTBUG- > > 20539?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment- > > tabpanel > 205

Re: [Development] qtwayland module fails to build for Raspberry Pi

2012-10-18 Thread Chris Adams
On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 2:06 AM, Jon Trulson wrote: > On Tue, 16 Oct 2012, Thiago Macieira wrote: > > On terça-feira, 16 de outubro de 2012 15.25.40, Jon Trulson wrote: >> >>> However, compiling qtwayland fails with many errors - errors that >>> imply qtwayland cannot work with the wayland insta