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== Background ==
== Background ==
There is currently heavy activity towards a new UI. There will be the HTML5 based version, TorstenD is currently working on and an internal implementation based on well supported libraries using Qt5 (which James Turner is working). The parallel development of HTML and Qt based UI happens by intention and is not the result of missing coordination<ref>http://forum.flightgear.org/viewtopic.php?p=229445#p229445</ref>. Most likely, both will use a common service layer to provide necessary data<ref>http://forum.flightgear.org/viewtopic.php?p=229303#p229303</ref>.


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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)<ref>http://forum.flightgear.org/viewtopic.php?p=234090#p234090</ref>-
  | 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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The launcher is not run by default, this is because it was created as a Mac only solution. We need to have the discussion if it should become the default launcher for Windows (Linux and other Unixes are less relevant, it’s up to the distribution packagers).
  |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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You can test the launcher by passing the <code>--launcher</code> argument, or setting the FG_LAUNCHER env var. These options exist to allow a Windows shortcut, .desktop file on Linux or the app bundle’s Info.plist to set the value when started from the GUI.
  |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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And if you run fgfs via the command line with some options, you don’t get troubled by the launcher - the idea being to minimise how much of my life I spend being shouted at by the Internet. Which is already way more than I would like.
  |There is currently heavy activity towards a new UI. There will be the HTML5 based version, I am currently working on and an internal implementation based on well supported libraries. Most likely, both will use a common service layer to provide necessary data.
  |{{cite web |url=http://forum.flightgear.org/viewtopic.php?p=229303#p229303
    |title=<nowiki>Re: New Canvas GUI</nowiki>
    |author=<nowiki>Torsten</nowiki>
    |date=<nowiki>Thu Jan 08</nowiki>
  }}
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Note the launcher on ‘next’ will be in flux shortly as James wil add some new features - support for the aircraft package manager especially, and for specifying some directory locations to support ‘code only’ nightly builds which use an existing FGData download<ref>http://sourceforge.net/p/flightgear/mailman/message/33503142/</ref>.
  | 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
However, the upcoming FlightGear 3.6 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)<ref>http://forum.flightgear.org/viewtopic.php?p=228961#p228961</ref>, because James Turner is prototyping a Qt5 cross-platform GUI <ref>http://forum.flightgear.org/viewtopic.php?p=232593#p232593</ref>.
    |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/>
<br/>
This is because it was created as a Mac only solution. We need to have the discussion if it should become the default launcher for Windows (Linux and other Unixes are less relevant, it’s up to the distribution packagers).<br/>
<br/>
You can test the launcher by passing the ‘—launcher’ argument, or setting the FG_LAUNCHER env var. These options exist to allow a Windows shortcut, .desktop file on Linux or the app bundle’s Info.plist to set the value when started from the GUI.<br/>
<br/>
And if you run fgfs via the command line with some options, you don’t get troubled by the launcher - the idea being to minimise how much of my life I spend being shouted at by the Internet. Which is already way more than I would like.<br/>
<br/>
Note the launcher on ‘next’ will be in flux shortly as I add some new features - support for the aircraft package manager especially, and for specifying some directory locations to support ‘code only’ nightly builds which use an existing FGData download.
  |{{cite web |url=http://sourceforge.net/p/flightgear/mailman/message/33503142/
    |title=<nowiki>Re: [Flightgear-devel] Qt launcher requirement bump in
Flightgear git</nowiki>
    |author=<nowiki>James Turner</nowiki>
    |date=<nowiki>2015-02-27</nowiki>
  }}
}}


== Status ==
== Status ==
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