State of the Qt6 port

[Zeke Williams]

If I could make a suggestion, animation overhaul such as a dedicated
animation camera, should be one of the things Krita 6 be about.
Similar to how Krita 5 introduced the transform masks, 6 can take it
even further with it.

On Sat, Feb 1, 2025 at 1:40 AM Emmet O'Neill <emmetoneill.pdx at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Nice work so far! If there is anything you want to delegate here, just let us know.
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> Soon we'll have to plan what else Krita 6 should be... :)
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> On Fri, Jan 31, 2025 at 6:56 AM Halla Rempt <halla at valdyas.org> wrote:
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>> Once the last merge request is merged, Krita builds with Qt5 and Qt6. There should be no functional difference for the Qt5 builds. All tests build as well, except for those that need the missing dependencies. Krita 6 doesn't start yet...
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>> These are the relevant merge requests
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>> https://invent.kde.org/graphics/krita/-/merge_requests/2225
>> https://invent.kde.org/graphics/krita/-/merge_requests/2243
>> https://invent.kde.org/graphics/krita/-/merge_requests/2253
>> https://invent.kde.org/graphics/krita/-/merge_requests/2291
>> https://invent.kde.org/graphics/krita/-/merge_requests/2305
>> https://invent.kde.org/graphics/krita/-/merge_requests/2306
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>> Not everything is done. Four dependencies are disregarded atm:
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>>  * KSeExpr (required version >= 6.0.0.0), <https://invent.kde.org/graphics/kseexpr>
>>    Required by the SeExpr generator layer
>>  * PyQt6 (required version >= 6.7.0), Python bindings for Qt6., <https://www.riverbankcomputing.com/software/pyqt/download>
>>    Required by the Krita PyQt plugin
>>  * Poppler, A PDF rendering library, <https://poppler.freedesktop.org/>
>>    Required by the Krita PDF filter.
>>  * KF5KDcraw (required version >= 5.0.0), A thread-safe wrapper around libraw, <https://api.kde.org/libkdcraw/html/index.html>
>>    Needed for reading RAW files
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>> I have only built on Linux, against distro packages for Qt6 and libraries that we use that use Qt6. To enable the Qt6 build, explicitly set BUILD_WITH_QT6=ON when calling cmake.
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>> So, MacOS, Windows and Android are untested, except for making sure the Qt6 build builds.
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>> The dependencies project has also not been ported to Qt6.
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>> I have done nothing to support Wayland, so there is still X11 specific code.
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>> There are ***MANY*** new warnings, mostly deprecations.
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>> We still use the Qt5 compatibility library, mostly for QRegExp. I didn't want to touch QRegExp and port it to QRegularExpression, though I have done that in some simple cases.
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>> There are 136 QT_VERSION_CHECKS in the codebase, but all version checks for different versions of Qt5 are gone :-)
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