Mac Binary with Qt 5.12.9

Richard Kimberly Heck rikiheck at lyx.org
Sun Dec 6 15:56:24 UTC 2020


On 12/6/20 4:30 AM, Anders Ekberg wrote:
>
>> On 6 Dec 2020, at 02:43, Richard Kimberly Heck <rikiheck at lyx.org
>> <mailto:rikiheck at lyx.org>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi, all,
>>
>> Due to bug #12042 (https://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/12042
>> <https://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/12042>), Stephan Witt
>> has produced an OSX package built with Qt 5.12.9. This is a more
>> up-to-date version of Qt than we've been using. If the package works
>> well, then we'll replace the binary for 2.3.6 with it. But first, we
>> need to make sure it works well! We don't expect there to be any
>> problems, but you never know. Could some brave souls test it out and let
>> us know how it works?
>>
>> It can be found here:
>>
>>     http://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-2.3/
>> <http://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-2.3/>
>>
>> Riki
>
> Works fine for me on Catalina 10.15.7 (MacBook Pro) and on Big Sur
> 11.0.1 on MacBook Air.
>
> Two things that are still annoying with running in dark mode on Mac:
> - Branches are shown with “standard background, but white text
> (equations in them with black background, though). 
> - An inserted picture with black lines on a transparent background is
> hard to see since the background is very dark. But that is of course a
> consequence of adhering to the transparent background. 
> See attached.

These are probably independent bugs.

Riki


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