Qt 6 compatibility

[data-man]

If you don't mind, I can work on it. :)

[christianparpart]

Oh that would be awesome. The only sad story is, I should stay compatible with Ubuntu 18.04 LTS for a little longer. Do you see a possibility to retain this support? (We have a PPA where Ubuntu 18.04 users can apt-get instlal contour from).

@data-man many thanks for your interest, btw, I really appreciate that. :)

EDIT:
I think there is not too much that would need to be touched as I tried to keep the toolkit/windowing dependency as little as possible.

• TerminalWindow: this is the actual window that is being placed on the desktop. you might see some stub code as I already had some PoC tabbed views support in, but that's for later. the basic idea is to be able to have multiple tabs and panes being rendered in one TerminalWindow.
• opengl/TerminalWidget: that's the QOpenGLWidget and purely bridging between the user interface and the backend APIs (the actual terminal renderer, rendering into pixels is independent of Qt, located in src/terminal_renderer)
• opengl/OpenGLRenderer: doing the actual OpenGL calls
• Controller: well yeah, this is currently not really used, the attempt was to be able to show notifications in the system tray, and Qt/Linux support for that was actually already in place (should be revived bevore 0.2.0 elease - for linux at least).

NB: The opengl/TerminalWidget class is an implementation of TerminalDisplay in order to allow different display implementations in the future (OpenGL, Software, Vulkan, DirectX, Cocoa).

If you have any questions, just go ahead. We also have a Discord (see README.md) and on Thursdays/Fridays I am also live-streaming working on Contour.

[data-man]

I should stay compatible with Ubuntu 18.04 LTS for a little longer

Just build the release with Qt5 for this OS?

many thanks for your interest, btw, I really appreciate that. :)

I like your project and someday Contour will be my only terminal. And I really want to get that day closer! :)

Thanks for the tips, I'll explore!

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BTW Maybe create a GH organization (Contour, libunicode, etc.)? (ContourOrg is free, I checked 😄)

[christianparpart]

I should stay compatible with Ubuntu 18.04 LTS for a little longer

Just build the release with Qt5 for this OS?

If the source stays compatible to Qt5, then this is a solution, yeah.

many thanks for your interest, btw, I really appreciate that. :)

I like your project and someday Contour will be my only terminal. And I really want to get that day closer! :)

💜

Thanks for the tips, I'll explore!

BTW Maybe create a GH organization (Contour, libunicode, etc.)? (ContourOrg is free, I checked 😄)

Oh yeah i considered that already. It will come.

EDIT: oh so sad: "contour" as org is reserved by a single dead repository? How can one claim this with an active project. Or we find a better org name

[data-man]

If the source stays compatible to Qt5, then this is a solution, yeah.

I'll explore this later. My tasks now:

• migrate to CPM. It's really cool!
• CI refactoring. I think testing with MinGW would be useful.

Oh yeah i considered that already. It will come.

💯 👍

Or we find a better org name

ContourProjects?

[data-man]

https://github.com/mitsuba-renderer/nanogui seems interesting, isn't it?

[christianparpart]

We're now live and running at: https://github.com/contour-terminal/contour/ (the old URL still happily exists and just redirects to the org)