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The '''Qt launcher''' is an integrated launcher for FlightGear designed as a replacement for [[FGRun]]. Initially designed as a stop-gap solution in FlightGear 3.4 for the problem of support for the [[FlightGear Mac OS X Launcher|old FlightGear Mac launcher]] ending with OS X Yosemite, it has become FlightGear's main launcher for all platforms, and is shipped with all official FlightGear releases (however, users building from source may need to separately configure/rebuild FlightGear). | The '''Qt launcher''' is an integrated launcher for FlightGear designed as a replacement for [[FGRun]]. Initially designed as a stop-gap solution in FlightGear 3.4 for the problem of support for the [[FlightGear Mac OS X Launcher|old FlightGear Mac launcher]] ending with OS X Yosemite, it has become FlightGear's main launcher for all platforms, and is shipped with all official FlightGear releases (however, users building from source may need to separately configure/rebuild FlightGear). | ||
In addition, this was also motivated by the plethora of 3rd party GUI launchers/frontends developed by numerous contributors over the years <ref>[[The FlightGear Front-End Situation]]</ref>. | In addition, this was also motivated by the plethora of 3rd party GUI launchers/frontends developed by numerous contributors over the years <ref>[[The FlightGear Front-End Situation]]</ref>. | ||
James Turner (primarily) is working on developing a built-in launcher which is intended to completely replace fgrun. This new launcher is pretty mature, runs nicely on every supported OS, and is already available in the current release. Fred B. (who was the primary developer for fgrun hasn't been involved with FlightGear for quite some time, and fgrun is built on a pretty old gui library called "fltk". Any changes that have been made to fgrun in the past couple years have been band-aids by people just trying to keep it limping along with modern os updates, newer compilers, newer osg libraries, etc. There will come a time (probably fairly soon) where we will stop supporting, compiling and distributing fgrun with FlightGear. (Fgrun of course will always exist and anyone can compile it and use it and maintain it if they wish, it just will stop being distributed with the core FlightGear package in favor of the newer launcher.)<ref>{{cite web | |||
|url = https://forum.flightgear.org/viewtopic.php?p=293518#p293518 | |||
|title = <nowiki> Re: Jumbolino </nowiki> | |||
|author = <nowiki> curt </nowiki> | |||
|date = Sep 2nd, 2016 | |||
|added = Sep 2nd, 2016 | |||
|script_version = 0.40 | |||
}}</ref> | |||
== History and status == | == History and status == | ||