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== Background ==
== Background ==
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  | the upcoming FlightGear release is likely to contain an integrated, hard-coded, launcher based on Qt5 to work around this issue (of the mac launcher no longer working)
  |{{cite web |url=http://forum.flightgear.org/viewtopic.php?p=228961#p228961
    |title=<nowiki>Re: FG cannot be opened on new iMac</nowiki>
    |author=<nowiki>Hooray</nowiki>
    |date=<nowiki>Sun Jan 04</nowiki>
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  |James Turner is prototyping a Qt5 cross-platform GUI
  |{{cite web |url=http://forum.flightgear.org/viewtopic.php?p=232593#p232593
    |title=<nowiki>Re: Request for a modernized FGRUN</nowiki>
    |author=<nowiki>elgaton</nowiki>
    |date=<nowiki>Fri Feb 20</nowiki>
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  |There is a lot of coordination and communication going on between most "core developers".<br/>
Just a little bit of this is visible as we sometimes meet face-to-face and much more often voice or video-chat.<br/>
The parallel development of HTML and Qt based UI happens by intention and is not the result of missing coordination.
  |{{cite web |url=http://forum.flightgear.org/viewtopic.php?p=229445#p229445
    |title=<nowiki>Re: New Canvas GUI</nowiki>
    |author=<nowiki>Torsten</nowiki>
    |date=<nowiki>Sat Jan 10</nowiki>
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  | the Qt5 stuff is currently only enabled for the Mac/OSX platforms because the corresponding launcher there had to be discontinued (well its dependencies got phased out by Apple) - and shouldn't be used anywhere else (yet).
  |{{cite web |url=http://forum.flightgear.org/viewtopic.php?p=234090#p234090
    |title=<nowiki>Re: FG 3.4 Windows: File Selection Box</nowiki>
    |author=<nowiki>Hooray</nowiki>
    |date=<nowiki>Thu Mar 05</nowiki>
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   |the launcher is not run by default :)<br/>
   |the launcher is not run by default :)<br/>

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