linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kconfig qconf: port to QT4

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Message-Id: <201006071401.56867.gene.heskett@gmail.com>
Date:	Mon, 7 Jun 2010 14:01:56 -0400
From:	Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@...il.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Alexander Stein <alexander.stein@...ormatik.tu-chemnitz.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kconfig qconf: port to QT4

On Monday 07 June 2010, Alexander Stein wrote:
>Hello Michal,
>
>Am Montag 07 Juni 2010, 14:45:48 schrieb Michal Marek:
>> I've only very little experience with Qt 3 or 4. The patch basically
>> changes most QSomeClass to Q3SomeClass, which is the Qt3-compatible
>> wrapper around QSomeClass. Now is it possible to still support Qt3? E.g.
>> have a header file that #defines Q3SomeClass back to QSomeClass and does
>> similar with the Qt headers, would that be possible? I know that Qt4 has
>> be there for five years already, but if the cost of keeping support for
>> old userspace is not too hight, I would try it.
>
>I never thought about qt3 compatibility but It seems to me that renaming
> the qt3 compat classes and revert the header file name changes should
> suffice to compile against qt3 again. But then somebody else has to do
> the makefile magic to support both versions. Also which version should be
> prefered if both are available?
>
>> BTW, after applying your patch, make xconfig starts ok, but clicking in
>> the main menu does nothing, and if I close the close button, it does not
>> exit, but stops reacting to any input (but it still handles window
>> resize). The qt3 version would display the "Save changes?" dialog here.
>
>I can click in the window around and closing the window using the X button
>asks me about saving the changes. Which QT version do you use actually?
>
>Best regards
>Alexander

Re-enabling kconfig for gt4 only distros like mdv, would be hugely 
appreciated Alexander.  I have never been comfy with menuconfig, which is 
forced now.

So thanks for anything you can do about making both gconfig and kconfig 
work, as neither does on mdv-2010-x86-64.

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