Bug 268841

Summary:	Support older Qt versions as well with reduced functionality (no in-game UI in this sense)
Product:	[Unmaintained] gluon	Reporter:	Jaakko Niemelä <jjackpot>
Component:	general	Assignee:	sacha schutz <istdasklar>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	lpapp
Priority:	VLO
Version First Reported In:	X-ray(alpha 1)
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Compiled Sources
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
Sentry Crash Report:

Description Jaakko Niemelä 2011-03-18 20:15:33 UTC

Version:           X-ray(alpha 1)
OS:                Linux

I would like to use gluon, but i can't because my distribution (ubuntu) doesn't have new enough Qt in it's repository. I would like to use gluon with older version of qt. It has been possible to use Gluon previously with older Qt versions and it got changed with the new in-game UI way.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Start gluon_qtplayer without QtQuick installed.

Actual Results:  
Got error message to terminal, which says: 
"    file:///usr/share/gluon/games/invaders.gluon/Assets/Invaders_Interface_Menu_Interface.qml
Error loading QML file.
1: module "QtQuick" is not installed"

Only the invaders logo appears to window.

Expected Results:  
Start the game.

Comment 1 Christoph Feck 2011-03-19 01:02:34 UTC

> (ubuntu) doesn't have new enough Qt in it's repository

Ask in an Ubuntu forum how to add the PPA or backports repositories.

Comment 2 Laszlo Papp 2011-03-19 01:29:42 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)
> > (ubuntu) doesn't have new enough Qt in it's repository
> 
> Ask in an Ubuntu forum how to add the PPA or backports repositories.

Actually, this has been the only irrelevant part of Jaakko's report. ( It is an abstract issue, not really PPA, Ubuntu, Debian, etc related ). Also, I guess he knows the usage of PPA and in that if he did not he would not have reported this issue here, but at some upstream place.

If I am not mistaken, he is asking that I have been whining about for a while and so many other users complained about, but nobody opened a bugreport yet.

All in all, I agree about this report as I have been doing like that for a long time...It might be a bit more work than we would like to sort it out in, but still...changing the priorty!

Comment 3 Justin Zobel 2021-03-09 05:41:37 UTC

Thank you for the bug report.

As this report hasn't seen any changes in 5 years or more, we ask if you can please confirm that the issue still persists.

If this bug is no longer persisting or relevant please change the status to resolved.

Comment 4 Christoph Cullmann 2025-06-10 16:52:46 UTC

This project is unfortunately no longer maintained.

If a new maintainer wants to step up and take care, the project is archived here:

https://invent.kde.org/unmaintained/gluon

You can just clone it in your private namespace on invent.kde.org and if you have started to work on it and fixed/implemented something get it reviewed and the project unarchived.

Sorry for the inconveniences.