[pkg-cinnamon] Bug#847482: qt5t not to be expected for stretch

[Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer]

On viernes, 9 de diciembre de 2016 07:34:22 ART James Lu wrote:
> Hi Lisandro,
> 
> I think the consensus upstream was that using qt5ct to set themes was
> more flexible than simply hardcoding it to gtk2 (e.g. if someone wants
> to use adwaita-qt instead). Granted though, I haven't tested qt5ct
> outside Cinnamon.

I think we will do our best to avoid having qt5ct in the archive, as the way 
it works may be problematic for Plasma.
 
> I also haven't tested whether setting the override to 'gtk2' instead of
> 'gtk' would solve the problem, as I'd have to patch+build
> cinnamon-session again. Either way, this still requires qt-styleplugins
> to be a newer version; I previously pulled a 5.0.0+git20161024-0.1
> version off Mentors that has the latest code, but it looks like that no
> longer exists.

Dmitry Schanev is about to push an upstream snapshot in order to have this 
theme back.
 
> Another note: there seems to be some work on getting Cinnamon 3.2
> packaged, though I'm not sure whether that's destined for stretch (3.2
> includes the patch I mentioned).

Well, Cinnamon maintainers will probably need to re patch it so it exports 
QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=gtk2 to make the theme work.

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