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

[Dmitry Shachnev]

Hi all,

On Fri, Dec 09, 2016 at 11:26:15AM -0300, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote:
> Hi! With my Qt maintainer hat on I'm still reluctant to packaging qt5ct
> because it intereferes with how plasma works *and* uses Qt5's private headers
> (although I know it doesn't have any options but that).
>
> So if we ever get to push it it will be for Buster.

I agree with Lisandro. qt5ct is a hack, and in most cases it is possible
to avoid using it.

> With respect to qtstyleplugins the author of the theme is Qt's other
> maintainer, CCing him in case he sees something I don't.

I have now pushed a new qtstyleplugins snapshot to unstable, which has
a GTK+ 2 style and a platform theme.

> With respect to the patch, isn't there a way to use the gtk plugin instead?

That patch exports QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=qt5ct. Instead of that, export
QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=gtk2 (and depend on qt5-style-plugins >= 5.0.0+git16).
This would be (almost) identical to Qt 5.6 default experience.

--
Dmitry Shachnev
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