Re: [Interest] Upgrade to Qt 5 -- pros and cons?

2013-03-23 Thread Rick Stockton
On 03/22/2013 05:11 PM, Thiago Macieira wrote: > On sexta-feira, 22 de março de 2013 18.58.50, K. Frank wrote: >> But it's interesting that nobody really put forth any functional benefits >> of Qt 5 in the widget / desktop space. > There hasn't been any new work done on the widgets, besides general

Re: [Interest] mouse gestures

2013-03-09 Thread Rick Stockton
Hello, guys. I just did a fresh pull from GIt, ran the example, and got nothing. Also, when I attempted the doubleclick event (after adding #include to the header file, it was missing) I got no response on a doubleclick Action either. I did build the new qt5/qtbase/src/widgets/kernel/QWind

Re: [Interest] TUIO (multi-touch) Input Plugin

2013-03-06 Thread Rick Stockton
Shawn is correct, that Qt5 DOES NOT Support multiple pointers in concurrent use. Qt 5.x (and earlier) have made a very fundamental choice at design time (of Qt itself): A GUI Application cannot be working (concurrently) with more than one Pointer Device. There is a "Pointer Focus", which is concep

Re: [Interest] Qt 5 and filesystem

2013-01-08 Thread Rick Stockton
On 01/07/2013 11:58 PM, Mark wrote: > On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 10:12 PM, Charley Bay wrote: >> Mark sayeth: >>> , KDE has a "little" (pun intended) thingy called >>> >>> "KIO". It's a very massive IO framework that has support for a lot of >>> different filesystems. It's all working under Qt and is

Re: [Interest] Standard QKeySequence for "Fullscreen"

2012-05-08 Thread Rick Stockton
I am delighted to advise this list that my Update to provide 'QKeySequence::FullScreen' has been integrated into the Staging Branch for Qt 5.0. As Oliver found and documented so clearly (thanks, Oliver!), Qt 5.0 will recognize both F11 (alone) and another key sequence as Bindings for this QKey

Re: [Interest] Standard QKeySequence for "Fullscreen"

2012-04-21 Thread Rick Stockton
On 04/21/2012 05:53 AM, Till Oliver Knoll wrote: > As a proof of concept, a naive "user settings aware" Qt implementation > could be > > - When initialising QApplication and > - When we detect running on KDE > - Dynamically link to "KDE Core" library (if not already done so anyway) > - For e

Re: [Interest] Standard QKeySequence for "Fullscreen" (was: Contributor agreement rundown)

2012-04-20 Thread Rick Stockton
On 04/20/2012 02:33 AM, Till Oliver Knoll wrote: << short Snip >> > a standard key sequence for "Fullscreen" is still missing. > >Apple says "Control+Command+F": > > http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/userexperience/conceptual/applehiguidelines/KeyboardShortcuts/Key

[Interest] Distro-provided xcb packaging; xcb advnatages over xlib

2012-04-13 Thread Rick Stockton
On 04/11/2012 01:25 PM, Thiago Macieira wrote: << SNIP lots of good stuff, but this is a mostly-new post>> > Qt 5's XCB plugin will require a somewhat newer XCB (i.e., more recent than > the dinosaur age). I don't foresee a problem for that, as we've discussed that > Qt 5 is new, so we don't feel

Re: [Interest] qt5 shapshot - not git or guitorious

2012-03-15 Thread Rick Stockton
On 03/15/2012 10:01 AM, Jason H wrote: I am looking for a snapshot of Qt5 but not from git or guitorius do to the fact that git does not work So where can I get a source snapshot, old school style? Jason: If you can wait for snail