[PyKDE] ANNOUNCE: SIP/PyQt/PyKDE v2.0pre1

[Phil Thompson]

Wayne Larsen wrote:
> 
> Great work, Phil.  I haven't had a chance to test out the new classes
> yet, but here are a couple of notes on the build...
> 
> - For some reason, building sip tries to autodetect the location of qt,
> but does not use the defined QTDIR that all qt programs seem to rely on
> (as does PyQt).  No big deal, but it does seem odd.

Fixed.

> - The debian package for qt2.2 that I was using (from kde.tdyc.com) has
> a dependency on glx for some reason, so that was required to add in
> order to build pyuic (-lGL).
> 
> After a quick test (and a restructuring of enums), things seem to be
> working fine.  I'm looking forward to trying out the Canvas and Table.
> I also played with pyuic a little bit, and it looked like it could
> handle most of the stuff I threw at it, although I need to play more
> with the layout abilities of that tool.  One thing that did mess it up
> was images - if you put an icon view onto a widget, it puts a folder in
> there by default.  That folder image was left in c++ syntax.

I haven't done images yet. Because I'm really lazy, can you send me a
.ui file with such an image in it?

Phil