[PyQt] File Dialogs Not Native In Linux Mint 17.3

Nick napperley at gmail.com
Sat Aug 20 03:18:55 BST 2016


Does anyone have a copy of *libqgtk3.so* that works with Linux Mint 17.3
(64 bit) and Qt 5.7?

On Sat, 20 Aug 2016 at 13:55 Nick <napperley at gmail.com> wrote:

> Qt 5.7 is definitely the culprit. Huge regression made by *The Qt Company
> *which doesn't just effect Linux Mint but also other Linux distributions
> <https://forum.qt.io/topic/68579/qt-creator-4-0-2-and-ubuntu-s-global-menu/2>
>  (
> https://forum.qt.io/topic/68579/qt-creator-4-0-2-and-ubuntu-s-global-menu/2)
> as well. It is a severe issue which *The Qt Company* isn't taking
> seriously like it should.
>
>
>
> On Sat, 20 Aug 2016 at 12:09 Nick <napperley at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Can confirm that *The Qt Company *did break the Qt theme system with Qt
>> v5.7. Here is another report
>> <https://github.com/linuxmint/Cinnamon/issues/5440> (
>> https://github.com/linuxmint/Cinnamon/issues/5440) which mentions the
>> exact same version of Qt. There is also another report
>> <https://github.com/linuxmint/Cinnamon/issues/5488> (
>> https://github.com/linuxmint/Cinnamon/issues/5488) which might be
>> related.
>>
>> On Sat, 20 Aug 2016 at 11:48 Nick <napperley at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Seems as though *The Qt Company* broke
>>> <https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon-session/pull/75> (
>>> https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon-session/pull/75) the QT theme
>>> system with Qt v5.7 onwards. Hopefully there will be a Cinnamon patch
>>> released in a month or two to get around a major QT bug.
>>>
>>>
>>>
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