Re: Qt 5.7 submodules that didn't make it to Stretch but will be in testing
On Saturday, June 24, 2017 7:43:51 PM CEST Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
wrote:
> <http://perezmeyer.blogspot.com.ar/2017/06/qt-57-submodules-that-didnt-make-> it-to.html>
>
> There are two Qt 5.7 submodules that we could not package in time for Strech
> but are/will be available in their 5.7 versions in testing. This are
> qtdeclarative-render2d-plugin and qtvirtualkeyboard.
Great step for those without a physical keyboard.
Too bad for the QTBUG-59594, because with this kind of input method, every
"input helper" is welcome.
Hope it'll be fixed in near future.
Thanks a lot :-)
Chris
I myself use: passwordless login + cellwriter (very good job by the way)
But it's far from optimal.
>
> declarative-render2d-plugin makes use of the Raster paint engine instead of
> OpenGL to render the contents of a scene graph, thus making it useful when
> Qt Quick2 applications are run in a system without OpenGL 2 enabled
> hardware. Using it might require tweaking Debian's
> /etc/X11/Xsession.d/90qt5-opengl. On Qt 5.9 and newer this plugin is merged
> in Qt GUI so there should be no need to perform any action on the user's
> behalf.
>
> Debian's VirtualKeyboard currently has a gotcha: we are not building it with
> the embedded code it ships. Upstream ships 3rd party code but lacks a way
> to detect and use the system versions of them. See QTBUG-59594, patches are
> welcomed. Please note that we prefer patches sent directly upstream to the
> current dev revision, we will be happy to backport patches if necessary.
> Yes, this means no hunspell, openwnn, pinyin, tcime nor
> lipi-toolkit/t9write support.
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