3 Jul
2024
3 Jul
'24
10:13 a.m.
On Tuesday 02 July 2024 03:24:07 pm Darrell Anderson via tde-users wrote:
On 7/1/24 12:47 AM, Riley Bell via tde-users wrote:
Even if possible, does Qt5/6 offer anything that TDE
needs? My memory is
vague but I seem to recall that Qt4 introduced changes that were not
compatible or wanted with a fork of KDE 3. For example, run a distro
with KDE 4 and notice the observable differences with theming. This
trend has continued with developers opting for flat interfaces.
I just got the impression that Qt5 is needed for a Webkit implementation from
the RoadMap page on the Wiki. Some embedded HTML pages (like opening tabs in
akregator or searching through ktorrent) load unbearably slow and I imagine
Webkit can fix that.
For me, the TDE GTK 2 and 3 engines have been broken
for some time. To
be fair, GTK support is troublesome in KDE too. Through the years there
have been heroic efforts to get GTK software looking better in KDE, but
the result is always the same -- sort of looks okay but not really
native looking.
Qt5 support in TDE is a bit flaky too. Look through this list where I
asked about running non KDE Qt5 software in TDE. The solution more or
less is install a package called qt5ct, but even then Qt5 tools do not
look "quite right" in TDE. Perhaps better than GTK, but still not quite
right.
qt5ct is a front-end for qt5-gtk2-platformtheme. There are some wonky styling
issues but I think it's tolerable for a unified style. I imagine it would be
better using a native qt5 style plugin. File dialogs in GTK2 apps can look
native with kgtk-qt3-trinity but has issues with GIMP (which is weird because
the code has some hacks specifically for GIMP, probably an older version?)
and Palemoon (my preferred browser). As for GTK3 and flatpaks I look forward
to the xdg-desktop-portal implementation.
All that said, I can't code in C++. So on most
days I accept what is. I
wish I could code C++ because I would be up to my eyeballs in code
trying to improve TDE. If you can code then I am certain you will be
most welcomed.
I haven't coded in a while and prefer C but I've always been a "learn as I
go"
person - starting with small projects and working my way up to larger goals.
I feel motivated to learn something new and in the meantime improve the
software I use and love.
Sincerely,
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