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== Announcement == | == Announcement == | ||
James Turner is currently prototyping (at the suggestion/encouragement of Curt, Torsten D & others) a GUI integration for FlightGear based on Qt 5. This would overlap some areas other folks are working on, so we felt it best to make an announcement to avoid anyone expending their time on areas that might be affected<ref name="a">http://sourceforge.net/p/flightgear/mailman/message/33245028/</ref>. | James Turner is currently (03/2015) prototyping (at the suggestion/encouragement of Curt, Torsten D & others) a GUI integration for FlightGear based on Qt 5. This would overlap some areas other folks are working on, so we felt it best to make an announcement to avoid anyone expending their time on areas that might be affected<ref name="a">http://sourceforge.net/p/flightgear/mailman/message/33245028/</ref>. | ||
This will be an in-app launcher for Mac initially, based on Qt5. Primarily, because the old Mac launcher doesn’t work on Yosemite, so we are adding a tiny Qt-based launcher inside the main process (no need to fork / exec) which runs before the OSG window is created, this will be merged for 3.4, hopefully with no impact on other platforms.<ref>https://gitorious.org/fg/flightgear/commit/78e8f533124ad38c414d10470abcd2149b6d01e8#src/Main/main.cxx</ref>. | This will be an in-app launcher for Mac initially, based on Qt5. Primarily, because the old Mac launcher doesn’t work on Yosemite, so we are adding a tiny Qt-based launcher inside the main process (no need to fork / exec) which runs before the OSG window is created, this will be merged for 3.4, hopefully with no impact on other platforms.<ref>https://gitorious.org/fg/flightgear/commit/78e8f533124ad38c414d10470abcd2149b6d01e8#src/Main/main.cxx</ref>. | ||