Bug#787680: Qt5: Applications disappear or crash when screen is switched

[Ralf Jung <post@ralfj.de>]

Hi,

>> That patch has now been accepted and merged upstream:
>> <https://codereview.qt-project.org/#/c/120700/>
>> Considering how many KDE packages landed in their Qt 5 version recently,
>> it'd be great if a recent enough snapshot (or 5.5.0 with the patch
>> backported) could fix this issue.
> 
> Sadly the patch is not easy to backport as the code has changed too much 
> between 5.4.2 and 5.0.0 

Yeah, a backport wouldn't be worth it - this builds on top of quite a
few other changes that made the screen stuff much more reliable. The
actual patch only fixes a small missing piece, but it's been the last
piece for me ;-)

> so it won't happen before the gcc5 transition which is 
> due to start in a week.
> 
> I will probably not work too much (if anything at all) in 5.5.0 until we get 
> the gcc5 transition stuff solved, so it will be most probably material for 
> 5.5.1.

I see, okay. Good luck with that transition!

Kind regards,
Ralf