KDE-SIG meeting report (08/2012)

[Kevin Kofler]

Michal Hlavinka wrote:
> Regarding Qt 5 - is it still early enough for bigger changes?

Qt 5 is already in feature freeze.

> In Qt 4 there is ugly bug:
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=165044
> 
> This bug was closed wontfix (and because of heated discussion, bug
> assignee removed himself from cc list), after some time they changed
> resolution to "upstream" which just means "wontfixed in upstream".
> 
> There is also
> http://www.macieira.org/blog/2011/09/qurl-in-qt-5-encoding/
> where this is going to be fixed in QUrl (if I read it correctly), but
> Thiago said the same again - file names with broken (non-utf-8) encoding
> are filesystem corruption and applications creating such files should be
> fixed.

Even if it weren't, I doubt Qt upstream would change their mind there, 
sorry.

It's nothing we can do anything about in Fedora in any case.

        Kevin Kofler