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

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I would like to also point out that I'm doing update process to Qt 5.13.2  
which has quite a lot of wayland fixes and I plan to backport support for 
primary-selection from Qt 5.14.

On pondělí 9. prosince 2019 20:03:36 CET you wrote:
> 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > g/ 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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