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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 FlightGear Front-End Situation|the plethora of 3rd party GUI launchers/frontends]] developed by numerous contributors over the years <ref>[[The FlightGear Front-End Situation]]</ref>. | ||
As for why the change, because the old one was Windows-only - the Qt5 thing works for Mac and Linux as well and allows to do things OS-independently, which is really conceptually superior as we don't need to deal with dedicated Win, Mac and Linux issues.<ref>{{cite web | |||
|url = https://forum.flightgear.org/viewtopic.php?p=291279#p291279 | |||
|title = <nowiki> Re: 2016.x.x take off from carrier </nowiki> | |||
|author = <nowiki> Thorsten </nowiki> | |||
|date = Jul 26th, 2016 | |||
|added = Jul 26th, 2016 | |||
|script_version = 0.40 | |||
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