[Bug 266] GoogleEarth should use the system Qt4 libs instead of its own (permitting font antialiasing)

https://plf.zarb.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=266

--- Comment #13 from Guillaume Rousse <[email protected]> 2010-03-13 11:31:31 CET ---
(In reply to comment #12)
> (In reply to comment #11)
> > (In reply to comment #10)
> > > > First issue: private copy of QT4.
> > > Rebuilding the needed Qt4 libs would be probably enough. But of course it would
> > > increase the maintenance work a lot. I would understand that you don't want to
> > > go this way.
> > We'd need to rebuild the application, not the libs, which is not possible.
> > 
> 
> I meant rebuilding a specific version of the Mandriva Qt4 libs, the same
> version as those provided by Google.
Which would requires identifying version, build options, and build environment
as well, in order to ensure ABI compatibility. Technicaly, this is a nightmare,
and the benefit is purely cosmetics => I won't go this way. 

> > > What about providing the Mandriva Qt4 libs that are known to be working, the
> > > ones from 2010.0, as a replacement of Google's ones ? It is a bit crappy, but
> > > anyway, with this kind of package we don't have to compile anything as there is
> > > no source code? At least should work on cooker...
> > The only reliable libs are the ones the application has been linked against.
> > Moreover, I don't see any interest replacing them with other binary builds.
> > 
> 
> The reason is in the title of this bug report: enabling font antialiasing.
Upstream issue, report the bug to google.
[..]
> > > Do you think it's worth to go ahead, or we should just wait for Google to
> > > complete their job?
> > That's a documentation issue, not a packaging issue. Feel free to add
> > documentation on mandriva wiki to explain how to support GTK themes under QT,
> > but I won't make any spec file more complex just for this kind of eye-candy
> > prupose.
> 
> I agree that GTK theme support under QT is more global "problem" that should be
> dealt in a more generic way, but GoogleEarth specificity is to be only
> available for 32 bits. So for an x86_64 Mandriva, only GoogleEarth needs the
> necessary 32 libs. That's the reason why I still think an empty
> googleearth-gtk-compat subpackage requiring these libs would be a user friendly
> and easy to implement solution.
Ask QT maintainer, not individual QT applications maintainers. We produce
package to distribute software, not to configure end users machines.

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