Re: Qt tools - no KDE support?

[Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero redhat de>]

On 3 Dec 2001, Trond Eivind Glomsrød wrote:

> > > > I obviously have KDE development resources or I would not be building KDE
> > > > apps. The point is that Qt tools can also support KDE widgets but need to
> > > > be built *after* KDE has been installed.
> > >
> > > That seems circular...
> > 
> > I agree it is not very obvious! You must build the Qt library, the build the 
> > KDE library and base, issue configure -kde  and then re-compile the 
> > $QTDIR/tools directory to get new executables with KDE widget support. If you 
> > do not do it in this order, designer and uic will not work with KDE widgets 
> > and you will not be able to compile projects developed with 
> > Kdevelop/Designer. Try and build webconfig-0.8 from apps.kde.com on a stock 
> > RH 7.2 system and you will see what I mean.
> 
> We're self hosting, and intend to stay that way. 

Nevertheless, this will be fixed with the release of KDE 3.0 - Qt has come 
up with a new plugin system for designer that will allow to load KDE 
extensions on the fly, without having to pick between supporting KDE 
widgets and being self-hosting.

LLaP
bero

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