2.4.0 with qt6

Enrico Forestieri forenr at lyx.org
Tue Oct 3 18:46:00 UTC 2023


On Tue, Oct 03, 2023 at 09:17:39AM +0100, José Matos wrote:
> 
>My setup:
>
>Version 2.4.0~RC1.devel
>(not released yet)
>
>Built from git commit hash 73e588bd
>Qt Version (run-time): 6.5.2 on platform wayland
>Qt Version (compile-time): 6.5.2
>OS Version (run-time): Fedora Linux 39 (KDE Plasma Prerelease)
>Python detected: 3.12.0 (/usr/bin/python3)
>
>
>Today was the first time that I tried LyX with Qt 6 and I was amazed by
>the look and feel of it.
>
>Thanks to all you for the good work with this integration.
>
>In particular I will, most probably, switch from qt5 to qt6, for the
>Fedora builds, when 2.4 is released. Is there any particular issue that
>I should be aware?

The code guarded by the define QPA_XCB should be audited and possibly 
either ignored or properly ported to Qt6. I think that only 
src/frontends/qt/GuiApplication.cpp is affected.

-- 
Enrico


More information about the lyx-devel mailing list