[Qgis-developer] Re: [Qgis-user] (no subject)

[John C. Tull]

On Oct 17, 2008, at 8:13 PM, William Kyngesburye wrote:

> On Oct 17, 2008, at 9:46 PM, John C. Tull wrote:
>
>>> About two weeks ago, the non-native dialog disappeared from Qt  
>>> 4.5. All  Mac file dialogs are native. Appending extra controls to  
>>> Mac native file dialogs hasn't been implemented yet so the QGIS  
>>> Encoding popup is currently unavailable in Qt 4.5.
>>>
>>> At this point, it looks like if we do nothing, the problem will go  
>>> away when Qt 4.5 is released (which may be around January). Qt 4.5  
>>> Carbon seems to work as well as Qt 4.4 for those who want native  
>>> dialogs now. Qt 4.5 Cocoa is quirky but also usable (no splash  
>>> screen, no icons in menus, some dialogs appear half off screen).
>>
>> Tom,
>>
>> Thanks for pointing out the Qt4.5 dialog change. That has been a  
>> concern for me as well, but now that Qt is moving to a native  
>> dialog it should be considered fixed.
>>
> Well, Qt 4.5 is still in development.  Qgis works with the current  
> stable Qt, and more work to get all the kinks worked out (like your  
> GRASS problem below, or adding the extra Qgis controls) would delay  
> Qgis even more.
>
> I'd be happy with Tom's proof-of-concept fix - I think the main need  
> for access to external drives is to add raster and vector layers.

Fair point. I possibly misunderstood and read Tom to say that he was  
willing to let it resolve itself once Qt4.5 becomes stable.

If it is an easy thing to do, I would also favor the proof-of-concept  
being committed to svn so the problem can be resolved now.

John