From xxttrree...@gmail.com on February 01, 2013 09:28:21

+1 in the future BUT, as some say: don't fix when ain't broken (for now) secondly even 4.8.1 theme support and performance is IMHO satisfying enough, secondly, there are higher priorities right? Shouldn't we wait for wider adoption of 5.1?

From arnaud.bienner on February 02, 2013 07:06:57

We will probably do this one day, but not now as, among other thing, it will be more difficult to provide builds for earlier releases of Linux distributions which don't package Qt5.

Labels: -Priority-Medium Priority-Low

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/VividVervet/Alpha2/Kubuntu has KDE5 as default. And fedora is going to have it as well in May release.

with Qt5 your ui is going to be faster on linux because Qt5 uses xcb protocol to communicate with X11, and besides Qt5 supports Wayland, a modern OpenGL-based replacement of X11 (Fedora will ship an experimental Wayland session).

btw I think you can have this task as a GSoC 2015 project

Work (slowly) in progress.

don't fix when ain't broken

for now it's clear that it IS broken, Gentoo stabilized qt5 and kde plasma. sad story is that even amarok isn't qt5 ready and there seems to be no qt5-music-player available at all ...

how much work it needs to be moved to qt5?

Most of it is already done (by Choco) in the qt5 branch, go clone it and break it and fix whatever breaks until it works, or if you cannot fix the bugs make bug reports here tagged with qt5.

Is there a status update on this? Seems like the qt5 branch is still getting updated a lot but it's also been ~8 months since the last post here.

See #5334

I may help up on merging qt5 branch workarounds into master (so it would be possible to choose the version against which to build on configuration stage), if it would be appreciated on current stage...

Is there any eta on when an actual qt5 release will be available for linux? I noticed the solus project distro are also waiting for a qt5 version before adding it to their repo's...

https://dev.solus-project.com/T272

I would like to mention that Debian re-announced yesterday that they are planning to remove Qt4 in the next release.

Any reasons why Qt5 branch haven't been merged into master yet? Maybe some bugs that need to be fixed first? Quick glance at issue list doesn't really show anything major, although qt5 label would help.

An automated qt5 build for mac & windows as part of our docker images is probably the biggest blocker.

@Chemrat see #5334. For Windows - #5584, #5669 still not merged.

A number of us are having issues with running the qt5 branch ref #5753.

@peterhoeg isn't issue #5753 irrelevant to the Qt version?

It kind of depends - that issue is present on qt4 and 5, yes, but in terms of getting the qt5 version ready it's still a critical issue.

@peterhoeg if it's not a regression relative to master but to the last release, that would not block merge to master though. It would need to be fixed in master as well, anyway.

openSUSE is in the process of removing libQtWebKit4, haven't looked at how this affects the functionality yet.

openSUSE is in the process of removing libQtWebKit4, haven't looked at how this affects the functionality yet.

@plater None I can see, the dep is long gone with just some leftover in the CMakeLists.txt. See also #5945

Good to know, any idea when the qt5 branch will be merged?
I'm slowly packaging it and will test it myself.
I maintain clementine for openSUSE.

It would be good to have ASAP :)

Agreed, if this can be done asap that'd be great. Just removed all the QT4 stuff from my Gentoo install to find out that Clementine didn't have a QT5 update... Not going to go through the hell/mayhem I went through to get QT4 completely removed just for Clementine. Unfortunately, this also means I need a temporary alternative to Clementine in the meantime. Clementine is my fav. audio player - the sooner the better!

media-sound/clementine-9999 in Gentoo uses Qt5 branch

In this day and age. Why gentoo ? T__T

That's a strange question, but let's stay ontopic here.

@Chemrat That worked perfectly, thank you! Glad to be back on Clementine already :)

Is there an ETA for this?

See also https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=874850, tracking Qt4 removal from Debian Buster.

There is already discussions about qt6: http://blog.qt.io/blog/2018/06/13/qt-contributors-summit-2018-wrap/

It's a shame that even Qt5 is low priority

I subscribed to this issue to be kept up to date with progress. I (and I bet a whole bunch of other people, including probably the developers) would appreciate it if we could have less "I want this too" or "You are so late supporting Qt5" noise in here. If you’re not ready to continue the work to port to Qt5, please don’t take even more time off other peoples hands by spamming their emails.

I agree with you @horazont . I didn't meant my update to be one of those message, I thought that Qt6 might coming faster that some of us thought, and that could be valuable information that can potentially affect decisions. I'm not deep into Qt, but it's a possibility that they remove some old deprecated stuff when bumping a major version.

I'm a Qt5 developer specialised in audio and multimedia application. I'll be happy to help. I tried to compile the qt5 branch but it fails.

Here is my CMakeOutput.log: https://pastebin.com/ST49ZfGP

FYI, Fedora now ships a Qt5 build of Clementine as of F29.
https://src.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/clementine.git/tree/

I'm on macOS 10.13 for your information.

@MartinDelille: This is not the right place for your specific issue, you should probably open a separate issue and attach a verbose build.log.

@hatstand probably also could be closed! :)