Re: Qt apps in Fedora 31 (GNOME / Wayland)

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Hi,

On pondělí 9. prosince 2019 14:53:40 CET mario futire wrote:
> There are outstanding issues in all Qt apps when they run in the default
> Fedora 31 desktop which is GNOME / Wayland.
 
> 1) Drag & Drop does not work
> (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1774762,
> https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-80303)
 2) Qt creator become almost
> useless without drag & drop

Both are same bug. I understand that non working drag and drop is a problem. I 
will try to investigate.

> 3) Window geometry cannot be restored
> (https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-80612)
 
This is a wayland limitation, apps are not allowed to position themself.

> All in all it makes a very bad user experience with what is a big GUI
> framework in the default F31 desktop.
 
> I think the major issue is that these bugs end up in no man's land:
> 1) Qt GNOME X11: all fine
> 2) Qt KDE Wayland: all fine
> 
> So is the bug in Qt? Mutter? Wayland? Users are not even aware of what is a
> Qt app and what not.
 
> I have written in the main users mailing list and was told to try here
> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
> thread/EDLBJZENMUQ5W6OXJPS3G237OHIEBHXA/
 
> I think that in this state Qt apps should not be allowed to run in Wayland
> under GNOME (by default).
 
> What do you think?

I think that when Gnome decided to switch to Wayland, there was way more 
issues and the move to switch Wayland actually helped Wayland adoption a lot. 
Every major change has issues at the beginnings and we are constantly working 
to make it better. 

Regards,
Jan


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