Qt 5.12 Alpha Released With OpenGL ES 3.1 Renderer, Several Wayland Improvements

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Qt 5.12 Alpha Released With OpenGL ES 3.1 Renderer, Several Wayland Improvements

The Qt Company has released the first alpha milestone of the upcoming Qt 5.12 tool-kit update...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Qt-5.12-Alpha-Released

[Azrael5]

Another excellent news.

[cl333r]

Anyone else noticed Qt 5.11.1 on Ubuntu 18.10 has Vulkan support disabled? I could only get Vulkan to work after I built and installed Qt 5.11.1 from source.

[carewolf]

Anyone else noticed Qt 5.11.1 on Ubuntu 18.10 has Vulkan support disabled? I could only get Vulkan to work after I built and installed Qt 5.11.1 from source.

Then vulkan headers needs to be added as a build dependency to Qt. Qt detects if the headers are there at configure time.

[starshipeleven]

Then vulkan headers needs to be added as a build dependency to Qt. Qt detects if the headers are there at configure time.

In other words, Ubuntu maintainers fail at maintaining Qt/KDE again.

[Venemo]

What exactly are the Wayland improvements? Does this mean Qt apps will finally start to behave nicely on the Gnome Wayland session, or is this only a set of compositor improvements?

[Vistaus]

In other words, Ubuntu maintainers fail at maintaining Qt/KDE again.

What a surprise.

[polarathene]

QML's JavaScript engine now supports ECMAScript 7.

About time! Should make QML much nicer to work with.