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Bug#712938: Qt4 and sni-qt



On Friday 08 May 2015 10:24:30 Tsu Jan wrote:
> On Thu, 07 May 2015 11:28:28 -0300 "Lisandro
> 
> =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dami=E1n_Nicanor_P=E9rez?= Meyer" <perezmeyer@gmail.com> 
wrote:
> > - sni-qt seems to be dead-upstream:
> > ...
> > Uploading dead-upstream stuff to the archive doesn't seems a wise idea to
> > me, so if anyone wants this in then jump in as sni-qt upstream. Or
> > **much**
> better
> 
> > yet, just help porting the code to Qt5.
> 
> sni-qt is only for Qt4 and needs a patch. As far as I know, no change will
> be needed with Qt5 >= 5.4 for the systray icons to work.

Right, that's why we recommend porting the apps to Qt5.

> sni-qt  may be "dead-upstream" but Qt4 is so too and yet there are so many
> Qt4 apps.

Indeed, and again: better if you port your app to Qt5 :)

> As mentioned above, Enlightenment already needs sni-qt for Qt4
> apps to show their systray icons.

Well, let them become upstream of sni-qt and we can reconsider :)

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