Bug#1019740: libreoffice: Please package the qt6 VCL plugin
Hi,
just discussed this on IRC. For reference:
17:38 < _rene_> michaelweghorn: ping?
17:38 < michaelweghorn> _rene_: pong
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17:38 < _rene_> michaelweghorn: I of course know about that plugin and
actually even fixed the build once ;-)
17:38 < _rene_> michaelweghorn: the question was whether it has a
stability compared to qt5 ;)
17:39 < _rene_> michaelweghorn: and: is there something
desktop-detecor'ish actually using it?
17:39 < _rene_> michaelweghorn: users usually don't know about
SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN...
17:39 < _rene_> (also sent per mail now for recording in the bug log)
17:40 < _rene_> michaelweghorn: ideally reply there :)
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17:42 < michaelweghorn> _rene_: from my developer experience, I'm
currently not aware of anything that's broken in qt6, but not qt5 VCL
plugin,
17:42 < michaelweghorn> except video playback on Wayland (tdf#145735),
which is due to there no longer being a qt6 gstreamer plugin
17:43 < _rene_> so people will complain about that...
17:43 < michaelweghorn> _rene_: and platform integration (theme) isn't
as nice, since I think there's no qt6 platform theme as of now, same
with qtcreator
17:43 < _rene_> but I consider videos and audios in presentations a bug
in the presentation anyway
17:44 < michaelweghorn> _rene_: nothing uses qt6 by default
(desktop-detection) and I wouldn't replace qt5/kf5 as of now, but only
package qt6 as optional alternative
17:44 < _rene_> sure, that will we a given anyway due to the qt6
dependencies and we need qt5 for kf5
17:44 < _rene_> so why would we want it then if users won't actually get
the effects?
17:45 < michaelweghorn> _rene_: but if you think that should wait until
qt5/qt6 can be replaced, I'd probably rather wait for a qt6/kf6-based
plasma desktop after all
17:45 < _rene_> as said, most people will just install it and notice no
effect at all
17:45 < _rene_> or some other qt6 thingy
17:45 < _rene_> doesn't need to be plasma :)
17:46 < _rene_> trying to decide whether the adding make sense AND
warrants a unknown waiting time in NEW
17:46 < michaelweghorn> _rene_: I don't have a strong opinion on whether
it makes sense to package qt6 in debian right now, fine with any
decision on that
17:47 < _rene_> ok
17:47 < _rene_> ok with me sending this conversation into the bug for
reference?
17:47 < michaelweghorn> _rene_: my main motivation to file
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1019740 was timur's
question in
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=145734#c2
17:47 < IZBot> bug 145734: LibreOffice-LibreOffice normal/medium NEW
[META] Qt6 VCL plugin bugs and enhancements
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17:48 < _rene_> yeah, read that
17:48 < _rene_> but he's a user knowing that that and SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN
exists
17:49 < michaelweghorn> _rene_: sure, I'm fine with that conversation
ending up in the bug report, thanks for taking care of that :)
17:50 < michaelweghorn> _rene_: as mentioned, my idea for now was just
to have it optionally for people who know what they're doing and it
wouldn't affect others at all
17:50 < michaelweghorn> _rene_: but I don't have any hard feelings
either way
17:51 < _rene_> will think about it. maybe only for 7.5.x where waiting
in NEW is not a big deal
17:52 < michaelweghorn> _rene_: sounds fine for me :)
17:52 < _rene_> (aka not in the next Debian release)
17:52 < _rene_> that one will definitely has 7.4.x (7.4.4 most probably)
Regards,
Rene
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