Qt 4.7 live ebuilds
Recently a new branch was formed in the Qt source repository for the upcoming Qt 4.7 release. The release is expected “mid 2010”. It will carry some exciting new technologies, especially the Qt Declarative UI, using QML (the new Qt Meta-object Language) and Qt Quick (Qt User Interface Creation Kit), as well as some improvements [...]
16 Mar 10 at 19:12 | gentoo, overlay, qt | Comments: 2
Qt 4.5.2 changes
This is basically a heads-up for Qt users on Gentoo. We are about to add the new 4.5.2 release to portage. With this release we have changed a few things. We no longer have certain useflags enabled by default that are already enabled by the desktop profile. This means that if you are not using [...]
27 Jun 09 at 18:48 | gentoo, qt | Comments: 4
Preventing the qt-phonon vs phonon block
We’ve had an unfortunate situation with x11-libs/qt-phonon and media-sound/phonon blocking each other on Gentoo (bug 270188). KDE and Nokia Qt Software each make their own releases of the Phonon library, and while these are largely the same, there are some minor differences. KDE4 users want media-sound/phonon, while the Gentoo Qt team has always insisted that [...]
3 Jun 09 at 23:46 | gentoo, phonon, qt | Comments: 4
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New PyQt4, sip and QScintilla snapshots in qting-edge
Recently a user on IRC suggested that using the latest snapshots for sip and PyQt4 could help with pykde:live problems. So those people that are on live kde4 on Gentoo, they may want to unmask and emerge the snapshot ebuilds I just committed to qting-edge overlay. They are masked because they may break other PyQt4 [...]
13 May 09 at 23:07 | gentoo, overlay, qt | Comments: 0
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Advancing Qt on Gentoo: qting-edge
Lately I’ve been very busy mainly with Qt related issues on Gentoo. We managed to resolve a good number of open bug reports, and finally came around to marking the split ebuilds for Qt 4.4.2 stable. This was quite a complicated issue, but has been made a lot easier with the recent improvements in dependency [...]
1 Feb 09 at 16:34 | gentoo, overlay, qt | Comments: 0
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Berkano overlay news
Recent changes in berkano overlay:
I cleaned out some cruft, packages that in my opinion weren’t useful anymore
I removed the older versions of hitchhiker-sources, because the kernel devs recommend using only the latest, for security reasons
I added a live git ebuild for Arora, the new Qt4 WebKit browser
Arora needs >=qt-4.4.0, which you can get here [...]
14 May 08 at 10:46 | arora, overlay, qt, webkit | Comments: 4
Nokia and Open Source
Via LWN.net and flors, Ari Jaaksi’s keynote on Nokia’s vision for the role of open source: “We participate in many open source activities, such as Gnome, Debian, Linux, Mozilla and WebKit browsers and so forth. We plan to increase our involvement there. We believe open source is a key strategy to create exciting devices and [...]
14 Mar 08 at 14:47 | open source, qt, webkit | Comments: 1
Qt-WebKit browser
Qt 4.4, of which a beta was just released, has the exiting new webkit module (the rendering engine behind Safari, based on KDE’s KHTML). As a demo, one of the developers has made a browser. This could grow into a very interesting project, so I’ll certainly be following it!
6 Mar 08 at 20:39 | browser, qt | Comments: 1
