kalzium - was- Re: Status of "default Qt5" Gear components

[Luigi Toscano]

Hello,
back to this point...

Nicolas Fella ha scritto:
> Am 30.12.24 um 00:36 schrieb Albert Astals Cid:
>> El diumenge, 29 de desembre del 2024, a les 22:24:17 (Hora estàndard del
>> Centre d’Europa), Luigi Toscano va escriure:
>>> Albert Astals Cid ha scritto:

>>> Thanks for checking, I've missed that. Looking at the avogadro code, it
>>> seems that both Qt 5 and Qt 6 are supported:
>>> https://github.com/OpenChemistry/avogadrolibs/blob/master/CMakeLists.txt#L74
>>>
>>> at least since 1.98.0:
>>> https://github.com/OpenChemistry/avogadrolibs/releases/tag/1.98.0
>>>
>>> It seems avogadro was disabled two years ago, before that upstream release:
>>> https://invent.kde.org/education/kalzium/-/commit/c5adadec76a9526d9449e0ee97
>>> 04765552fabda1
>>>
>>> So maybe time to reenable it?
>> Sure, also last time i checked it didn't really work (the molecule viewer is
>> black whatever you load) in Qt5 nor Qt6 mode, so it's not worse :D
> I gave this a try and noticed that there's some unported code behind
> that conditional. I can make a patch for that. I can confirm that the
> OpenGL related parts are broken tough

You proposed (thanks!)
https://invent.kde.org/education/kalzium/-/merge_requests/56
which got some discussion recently. Should we just drop Qt5, merge 56 and move
forward? There are also a few interesting reviews open, at least one would
require some chemistry expertise.

Ciao
-- 
Luigi