Patch for unwanted console windows caused by KIO slaves [Fwd: Re: Review Request 124905: Win: Hide console window for binaries in LIBEXEC]

[Jaroslaw Staniek]

On 10 October 2016 at 23:35, Kevin Funk <kfunk at kde.org> wrote:

> On Monday, 10 October 2016 22:56:11 CEST Jaroslaw Staniek wrote:
> > On 11 July 2016 at 18:20, Kevin Funk <kfunk at kde.org> wrote:
> > > Heya,
> > >
> > > we used to have this problem where KIO slaves forked off from a process
> > > caused
> > > console windows to pop up on Windows.
> > >
> > > This is now resolved.
> > >
> > > All started here:
> > >   https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/124905/
> > >
> > > ... then ended up in a Qt bug report (which got fixed by me later on):
> > >   https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-53833
> > >
> > > Patch here:
> > >   https://codereview.qt-project.org/#/c/162585/
> > >
> > > tl;dr: Fixed in Qt 5.8.0.
> >
> > ​
> > Hi Kevin
>
> Heya,
>
> > After a while: I think forcing to skip Qt LTS and going for 5.8.0 is not
> > practical.
>
> Well, you can always patch Qt?
> ​​
>
>
> > Are users of KIO and alike forced to patch KF5 to remove unwanted "black
> > windows"?
>
> Emerge applies that patch to qtbase already. So when you use Emerge, your
> issue is fixed.
>
> Regarding upstream: I didn't push it to anything below Qt 5.8 b/c it's a
> behavioral change after all. Not a simple bug fix.
>
> > That would look like unfortunate for developer experience of KF5 on
> Windows.
> > That's what exactly I am facing (and in fact migrating away from dbus
> too,
> > thus decreasing my use of KF5 unfortunately on Windows).
>
> > Can we have a temporary fix at ECM of KF5 level (e.g. for Qt < 5.8.0)?
>
> I'm lacking the motivation/time do so unfortunately. I've already spent
> significant amount of my time on this issue, not planning to continue.
>
>
​Thanks Kevin​,
Moved my opinion here, for the record:
https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/124905/#review99926

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