[Qgis-developer] Drag n drop on OS X

[William Kyngesburye]

I'm not sure how complete the Qt5 transition is in QGIS.  I wouldn't want to switch until it's fairly stable, and not in the middle of a long term release (2.8) even if it's only for 2.10+ builds, it's very difficult to have 2 Qt versions installed side by side.

On Jun 8, 2015, at 10:56 PM, Nyall Dawson <nyall.dawson at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On 9 Jun 2015 1:07 pm, "Larry Shaffer" <larrys at dakotacarto.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > This can be fixed for Qt 4.8.x, but requires direct access to the Cocoa API when needed to introduce the non-Qt-source workarounds noted in the QTBUG-40449 [0].
> >
> > Btw, this is an example of my old PR [1] to introduce abstracted calls to the OS (Mac for example, with Objective-C++) to handle changes in OS API libraries and keep such workarounds in one place instead of peppered throughout the source tree. Especially for those instances where Qt fails us, but a direct call to the OS could be abstracted for a workaround where needed.
> >
> > Unfortunately, it is a significant change that needs really tested well, and certainly not reasonable to introduce into 2.10 as a fix, as it is more of a feature.
> >
> > I never upgraded to 10.10 for several reasons, but am about to, or I would have noticed this nasty bug sooner.
> >
> > [0] https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-40449
> > [1] https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/1084
> 
> Thanks for looking into this Larry,
> 
> I'm wondering - is there anything stopping the OSX builds from moving to the Qt5/pyqt4 combination? I gather qt4 on 10.10 is unsupported and probably has a lot of little quirks like this we can't easily fix. I'm tipping the next OSX release will have even more. But since we're not relying on a distro and are more or less free to choose dependencies on OSX, couldn't we switch the OSX build across now?
> 
> Nyall
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