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Qt4 Interface - ekerazha

ekerazha — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 13:49:01 +0200

@asdf
It was a big issue, but clearly you can’t understand it.

Qt4 Interface - Vamp898

Vamp898 — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:37:44 +0200

For the last part

The gtk2qt engine is just a overdrwaing stuff

The Stuff is first drawed by GTK+ and then overlayed by Qt.

This looks terrible and does not work all the times

Qt have since 4.4 (as i know) and feature wich lets Qt Stuff directly drawn by GTK.

VLC 1.0.0 RC 2 - roz

roz — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 22:53:56 +0200

Please may I leave feedback for someone in VLC. it is an excellent player, however I downloaded the latest version and bin and cue files are not supported! After all this time. shame! Please may I be added to a petition to reinstate this? Thank you.

VLC 1.0.0 RC 2 - S

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 20:25:16 +0200

And where can we (the users) get that patch? (In this case I’ll build my VLC from ABS (Arch Build System). TIA.

VLC 1.0.0 RC 2 - JBK

JBK — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 20:15:16 +0200

For VAAPI, there is a patch for 1.0.0 and it is integrated in 1.1.

VLC 1.0.0 RC 2 - S

Fri, 05 Jun 2009 17:46:34 +0200

Hello! The VDPAU and ffmpeg-mt support is implemented already? I’ll use it then..but else, it makes no sense to switch. (Since I can’t even play HD videos without VDPAU or ffmpeg-mt).

Thanks!

Qt4 Interface - JBK

JBK — Fri, 29 May 2009 23:45:34 +0200

So far, Qt interface does all what wx could do and even more.

Qt4 Interface - airpain

airpain — Wed, 20 May 2009 06:35:26 +0200

What is used underneath, I really don't care. What I do like about .8.6 is the menu selections, placements and buttons. What people have been asking is if it's not a big issue, can that look and feel be put back in. The engine that's used to do that, they don't care I think. The "old" interface gave them just the right amount of options they wanted. They're referring to the menus selections, the look and feel, the buttons where they are. Frankly, they could care less if Qt was underneath, as long as they get to see the button placements and menu words just the way it used to be. If that doesn't make sense, then I'm at a loss as to how to explain it further.

Qt4 Interface - asdf

asdf — Thu, 14 May 2009 23:03:42 +0200

'User "asdf" (he doesn't have the bravery to use his true nickname) is the living that the biggest trolls are the ones who accuse others to be "trolls".'

You are not even close to what this is about.

'However... now QT 4.5 is LGPL too. End of the problem.'

Was a non existing issue from the beginning if you just paid a bit attention. Good to hear it's now solved.

Qt4 Interface - ekerazha

ekerazha — Sat, 09 May 2009 11:41:20 +0200

User "asdf" (he doesn't have the bravery to use his true nickname) is the living that the biggest trolls are the ones who accuse others to be "trolls".

However... now QT 4.5 is LGPL too. End of the problem.

Qt4 Interface - Daniel

Daniel — Fri, 08 May 2009 21:44:37 +0200

I'm a coder (C/C++) and I've been using the QT framework recently for a project I've been working on and I was pleasantly surprised by how clean and readable the code was. Good choice using qt. Readable code = less bugged code = happy developers

Qt4 Interface - JBK

JBK — Fri, 01 May 2009 22:29:54 +0200

@Alex: oui, c'est sur; il faut compiler Qt depuis gentoo, et ça c'est chiant. Mais juste QtCore et QtGui pour VLC, pas le reste.

Pour Windows 64bit, c'est quand quelqu'un a le temps

Qt4 Interface - Alex_FR

Alex_FR — Fri, 01 May 2009 21:32:47 +0200

"VLC sous WX nécessite wxGTK qui a besoin de GTK... Donc"

La face caché de WX alors... :D

Et bien, ce n'est peut-être pas la mort d'installer qt, mais ça casse tout de même le principe qu'on peut avoir par exemple sous Gentoo comme je l'ai exposé... Bon c'est vrai, on est pas majoritaire, ça reste malgré tout dommage. Longue vie tout de même à VLC !

Sinon, un peu HS, des nouvelles de la version x64 sous Windows ?

Qt4 Interface - JBK

JBK — Fri, 01 May 2009 19:55:47 +0200

Alex: VLC sous WX nécessite wxGTK qui a besoin de GTK... Donc

L'avantage de wxwidgets c'était de ne pas nécessiter ni gtk, ni qt et il s'insérait plutôt pas trop mal dans chaque environnement, ce qui ravissait absolument tout le monde.

est faux.

De plus, Qt, avec QtGtkStyle s'intégre aussi bien dans Gtk que dans le reste.

Les libQt nécessaire (QtCore et QtGui) font environ 15Mb sur le disque... (8 à télécharger), donc c'est pas la mort.

Qt4 Interface - Alex_FR

Alex_FR — Fri, 01 May 2009 10:22:44 +0200

Salut JB,

Je ne savais pas trop où poster, je n'ai pas non plus lu la tonne de commentaires ici, je suppose que tu dois être assez exaspéré des commentaires non constructif, cependant je suis obligé de suivre un peu l'avis général, je ne suis pas satisfait du passage à Qt pour VLC. En fait, c'est surtout de l'incompréhension qui m'interpelle. J'ai lu je ne sais plus sur quel site (PCInpact ?) tes interventions, où tu disais que VLC sa grande force est d'être parfaitement multiplateforme, sans pour autant exploiter des fonctionnalités trop particulières à chaque plateforme (comprendre par là identique trait pour trait sur toutes les plateformes). Même si l'utilisation de Qt ne casse pas ce principe, je trouve que c'est oublier ceux qui ne veulent pas installer les bibliothèques Qt, par exemple parce qu'ils utilisent une interface Gtk. Dans mon cas, j'utilise Gentoo sous Xfce, j'ai clairement mis dans mon make.conf en USE "-qt". L'avantage de wxwidgets c'était de ne pas nécessiter ni gtk, ni qt et il s'insérait plutôt pas trop mal dans chaque environnement, ce qui ravissait absolument tout le monde.
Ce n'est pas un troll contre Qt, mais plutôt une incompréhension de choix, j'aurais réagi pareil si vous aviez choisi gtk. Je sais que votre avis a été exposé un peu partout, mais je voulais avoir ton avis personnel là dessus.

Et pardon si je m'exprime en français, j'y suis plus à l'aise

Alex.

Qt4 Interface - JBK

JBK — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 12:23:35 +0200

Can you explain why?

Qt4 Interface - qt SUCKS gtk PWNS

qt SUCKS gtk PWNS — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 10:02:49 +0200

hate it, hate it, hate it!!! VLC!!!!!! You have let me downnnnnnnnnn!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :'-(

Qt4 Interface - asdf

asdf — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 10:19:53 +0100

So I should have asked why all tar balls >=0.9.0 on http://download.videolan.org/pub/vi... do not contain this gui?

"The fact that you don't have activated it, is not my problem..."

It's still not just a matter of activating even ./menuconfig and ./build-vlc suggests so. Give it a try.

"If you want a bug, try going in and out of fullscreen, and randomly, you will loose the hotkeys interaction with the core."

~/devel/vlc $ ./vlc_gui_tester.pl
VLC media player 0.8.6i Janus
* Attempting to switch fullscreen mode 1'000'000 times.
* Be prepared to wait for a long time.
* Done
* Releasing vlc
~/devel/vlc $ [00000249] access_file access error: seeking too far
[00000326] access_file access error: seeking too far
[00000236] main playlist: stopping playback

I let this program run 5 times and each time the hotkeys worked as expected afterwards. VLC switched fullscreen mode at about 40Hz, almost four times as fast as the default character repeat rate of keyboards. 5'000'000 switches (a lot more than I would during normal use in a lifespan) and no breakage. So I can't reproduce this bug on my end.

And here some configure output so you know a little about the test setup:

* Using wxWidgets: gtk2-unicode-release-2.6

-----

vlc configuration
--------------------
vlc version : 0.8.6i
system : linux
architecture : x86_64 mmx
build flavour : devel
vlc aliases : wxvlc

And here line 1542 of the NEWS file in git v 0.9.8 because you mentioned UTF-8 more than once:
* The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe

Exactly my experience.

Qt4 Interface - JBK

JBK — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 12:58:42 +0100

Here.

And this is 0.9.9

Qt4 Interface - asdf

asdf — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 16:21:09 +0100

$ tar xjf vlc-0.8.6i.tar.bz2

$ find vlc-0.8.6i/ -name wx\*
vlc-0.8.6i/extras/contrib/src/Patches/wxwidgets_uri.patch
vlc-0.8.6i/extras/contrib/src/Patches/wxMSW-win32.patch
vlc-0.8.6i/extras/contrib/src/Patches/wx-cvs-2005-02-09-patch.diff
vlc-0.8.6i/modules/gui/wxwidgets
vlc-0.8.6i/modules/gui/wxwidgets/wxwidgets.cpp
vlc-0.8.6i/modules/gui/wxwidgets/wxwidgets.hpp

VERSUS

$ tar xjf vlc-0.9.8a.tar.bz2

$ find vlc-0.9.8a/ -name wx\*
vlc-0.9.8a/extras/contrib/src/Patches/wxwidgets_uri.patch

Tell me more about this option please.