Dolphin to use Qt over Wx

purpasmart96 · (This post was last modified: 06-02-2014, 06:06 AM by purpasmart96.)

Since Qt is better all around , and I've heard eventually dolphin would switch over to Qt, I would just like to know when it is finally going to happen?

**Sonicadvance1** · 06-01-2014, 10:57 AM #2

We already have a branch for QT.

purpasmart96 · 06-01-2014, 11:17 AM #3

(06-01-2014, 10:57 AM)Sonicadvance1 Wrote: We already have a branch for QT.

Yeah but it hasn't been updated for some time, I'm wanting to know when qt is going part of master

purpasmart96 · 06-01-2014, 12:26 PM #4

(06-01-2014, 10:57 AM)Sonicadvance1 Wrote: We already have a branch for QT.

Where is this branch you speak of, that branch is nowhere to be found

galop1n · 06-01-2014, 08:09 PM #5

Does it means i will have to DL a 5GB of QTSDK to compile dolphin ?

**delroth** · 06-01-2014, 11:23 PM #6

Yes, because you use a terrible operating system (but really, 650MB).

**mbc07** · 06-02-2014, 12:12 AM #7

Wouldn't be possible to include the required Qt dependencies in Externals folder? Or this can't be done with Qt?

**neobrain** · (This post was last modified: 06-02-2014, 12:16 AM by neobrain.)

It's not really maintainable. The number of files required just to build Dolphin would be too large, and I don't think anyone would want to take the time to gather all of them together. Plus, it'd probably still add something like 50-100 MB to our repository.

Btw, about the branch.. it's at https://github.com/neobrain/dolphin/commits/dolphin-qt .

galop1n · 06-02-2014, 01:02 AM #9

(06-02-2014, 12:15 AM)neobrain Wrote: It's not really maintainable. The number of files required just to build Dolphin would be too large, and I don't think anyone would want to take the time to gather all of them together. Plus, it'd probably still add something like 50-100 MB to our repository.

Btw, about the branch.. it's at https://github.com/neobrain/dolphin/commits/dolphin-qt .

And what about a script that at least fetch the correct Qt sdk version and install it locally in externals without messing with the system ?

**neobrain** · (This post was last modified: 06-02-2014, 01:12 AM by neobrain.)

That would very likely require building Qt from source (there's no way to get prebuild libs and binaries without installing the actual SDK afaik). I don't think anyone will want to go through the hell to automate this in a reliable way (particularly since it likely takes more time than just installing the SDK system-widely).