Migration to Qt 6

[user0]

Hi Pierre,
Are there any plans to migrate to Qt 6?

[xnview]

not yet, QT6 doesn't support Win7 & MacOS 10.12/13

[user0]

maybe time has come?

- standard support of 5.15 ends 2023-05-26
- there are quite a lot qt related issues been reported on forum, maybe they are solved in newer version
- hope theme functionality will be improved
-- finally remove 'old dark' theme, all related files/folders as it is confusing a lot
-- maybe add user-customizable theme functionality
- market share of OS necro versions has dropped to minimum (eg win7 <4%)

ps: obs short discussion on the subject

[xnview]

- standard support of 5.15 ends 2023-05-26

i have a support until 2024

- there are quite a lot qt related issues been reported on forum, maybe they are solved in newer version

yes, "better support for HiDPI and fractional scaling"

- market share of OS necro versions has dropped to minimum (eg win7 <4%)

Windows 8 & macOS 10.13 too

[cday]

Users have quite recently still been requesting updated versions for Windows XP...

[user0]

Windows 8 & macOS 10.13 too

• macOS 10.13 support status by Apple
  Unsupported as of November 2020.[2] iTunes is no longer being updated, but is able to download driver updates to sync to newer devices.[3]
  Apple probably allows to upgrade for free, but I'm not sure.

• Windows 8
  not sure I've heard of cases where people wilingly sticked with win8 (which cannot be said about xp/win7)

Users have quite recently still been requesting updated versions for Windows XP...

I'm pretty sure these 1-5 users can happily use Classic version or current MP (that is stable enough) and do not hold the progress (similar to x86 lovers)


However, I'm unaware about any Pierre's liabilities to the payed users.
So I'm just patiently waiting for changes

[ckit]

XnViewMP v2.x is QT6
XnViewMP v1.x is QT5
XnView Classic is Pure C or Python, Boa, Cobra or IDK

Done, wasn't that hard!

[xnview]

XnViewMP v2.x is QT6
XnViewMP v1.x is QT5

Yes but maintenance & build will not be easy...

[user0]

any news on plans for qt6?

[xnview]

any news on plans for qt6?

i think not before 2025.

[flipflop]

Any progress on Qt6 migration? Except for XnViewMP, all of the Qt apps I'm using were megrated to Qt6. Would be amazing to see XnViewMP close this gap as well

[xnview]

Any progress on Qt6 migration? Except for XnViewMP, all of the Qt apps I'm using were megrated to Qt6. Would be amazing to see XnViewMP close this gap as well

The beta test of Qt6 version will start very soon...

[jkm]

It’s the app and the features it provides that are important, not the framework it’s built on.

[RazonShark]

It’s the app and the features it provides that are important, not the framework it’s built on.

It's both. Apart from some Linux distros starting to remove Qt 5 support from their repos, the other benefit to Qt 6 is it supports fractional scaling extremely well. Right now xnview doesn't support HiDPI scaling properly. Yes it has a checkbox that says "Scale on HiDPI screen: 1 image pixel equals 1 screen pixel" but when fractional scaling is applied it doesn't actually work and everything is zoomed in far more at 100% than it should be, where as native KDE applications like Gwenview understand fractional scaling properly and compensate. I've had to use various environment variables to force xnview to behave and even then it's not quite correct. I'm hoping the move to Qt 6 will naturally solve this.