My answers to Juraj's last comment in bug report #476836

[Jens Radloff]

Hi Juraj (hi all),

You answered to my last comment in bug report #476836 here:

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=476836#c10

I thought, let me answer your last comment in in bug report #476836 here via 
this mailing list. Because here it is more talkative ;-)

> Qt6 is already released, QtWebEngine is a part of Qt.

Yes, I noticed that when I searched the repositories of Debian 12 for QT-
related packages, that the currently installed version of QT on my machine 
(QT5) also includes packages with names containing the pattern "qtwebengine".

> What needs to be ported to Qt6 is Falkon.

OK.

> I checked the site with the development version which is already partialy
> ported to Qt6 and it works fine.
>
> In other words, It should be fixed with Falkon 24.02.

OK, then it seems to not take so much time until Falkon in version 24.02 will 
be provided in the git repository.

I just refreshed my knowledge about git by having read some parts of the Git 
User Manual - so I found out that the latest version of Falkon in its git 
repository still is v24.01.75.

> But the distribution you use will need to provide Qt6, otherwise it will be
> impossible to update.

The distribution I am using is Debian 12 (currently the Debian stable 
release). It contains QT5 and QT6:

# apt list *qt6*

[...]

qt6-webengine-dev-tools/stable 6.4.2-final+dfsg-1 amd64
qt6-webengine-dev 

[...]

Before I just found out that my Debian installation also contains QT6-related 
packages I had assumed that in only contains QT5 packages. That means a lot of 
less work when compiling future versions of Falkon which will require QT6.

I think, several years ago I compiled a newer version of QT on my other 
machine here at home, where the installed version of QT that was provided by 
the Debian repositories at that time was one major version older than the 
(newer) QT version which I compiled on that machine.

As far as I can remember I compiled the newer version of QT at that time on my 
other machine in order to be able to compile another software against that 
newer version of QT.

That other software was MusE, software for audio editing incl. generating 
music with among other things MIDI:

https://github.com/muse-sequencer

Several years ago I created some bug reports for MusE, they can be viewed 
here:

https://github.com/muse-sequencer/muse/issues?
q=is%3Aissue+author%3Ajensplixplox+is%3Aclosed

But as I think I can remember, MusE had its project first hosted by 
sourceforge.net before it was moved to github. I think I started to do QA for 
MusE when it was still hosted by sourceforge.net.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/lmuse/

At a certain point I stopped working for the MusE team because I had kind of 
lost general interest in making music on my computer, and thus lost interest 
in doing QA for such software like MusE. 

Best regards,

Jens