Testing the upgrade to Qt 5.12

CiberSheep · 1 Sept 2020, 20:43

@dobey said in Testing the upgrade to Qt 5.12:

Otherwise though, is your rootfs full? Did you already install some other things extra in it perhaps from Ubuntu archive?

I'll install a fresh image and try again to be sure

lduboeuf · 2 Sept 2020, 07:03

@dobey

So, sfxr, messaging-app, teleports still crashes on BQ4.5, drawer icon number columns are fine now. Splash screen icon is shrinked:

kugiigi · 2 Sept 2020, 07:22

I tried this on my Nexus 5. Here are my observations (some might have been reported already). Note that I don't have a sim card inserted so that might also a factor in some of these. Also, I used this as my daily driver before so it has plenty of data and may represent an upgrade from an actual daily driver device.

Splash image is not displayed correctly
App drawer only has 2 columns which was 3 before
Phone app and Fluffy Chat crashed when triggering the bottom edge
Messaging app opens fine but if you open a thread, the messages are jumbled and not displayed correctly
Calculator app opens but seems to fail to actually initialize so it's not interactive/working
Clock and Calendar app opens but crashes after a few seconds (I have google and NC calendars synced)
Contacts app works fine but dragging the bottom edge only shows the header until the drag is completed.
Dekko 2 and TELEports are blank. I have accounts configured.
PDFs are blank in Document viewer except in slideshow mode. Libreoffice files crashes the app.
Double-tapping in the OSK (cursor mover mode) is quite difficult to trigger.
It seems that Qt 5.12 is a bit less forgiving in codes like for example with layouts. My app Palitan has many warning logs and also there are some UIs not displayed which probably caused by those errors/warnings.
I also see Type error errors in JS in some apps. Probably related to the known issues with JavaScript which I believe was already discussed somewhere.
Honestly, expected a noticeable improvement in the performance but so far it's almost the same and I feel like I actually see more micro stutters but not sure though if I'm observing it right

dobey · 2 Sept 2020, 16:03

@kugiigi said in Testing the upgrade to Qt 5.12:

Splash image is not displayed correctly

This should also be the case in stable/devel already, given the source, but fix is inbound in the 5.12 branch.

App drawer only has 2 columns which was 3 before

Fix already in.

Contacts app works fine but dragging the bottom edge only shows the header until the drag is completed.

Fixed now.

Double-tapping in the OSK (cursor mover mode) is quite difficult to trigger.

Seems to be mostly fine here on my Nexus 4, but it seems to get "stuck" after a while, and I don't see anything in the maliit-server log.

It seems that Qt 5.12 is a bit less forgiving in codes like for example with layouts. My app Palitan has many warning logs and also there are some UIs not displayed which probably caused by those errors/warnings.

Yes, in general it is a bit stricter. You'll need to fix your app.

I also see Type error errors in JS in some apps. Probably related to the known issues with JavaScript which I believe was already discussed somewhere.

There seems to be a few things that can cause this, but those apps will need to be fixed individually.

dobey · 2 Sept 2020, 16:04

@lduboeuf said in Testing the upgrade to Qt 5.12:

So, sfxr, messaging-app, teleports still crashes on BQ4.5,

Can you get stack traces? I don't have an e4.5 and they are starting fine here on my nexus 4.

Thanks.

CiberSheep · 2 Sept 2020, 17:06

@dobey said in Testing the upgrade to Qt 5.12:

@kugiigi said in Testing the upgrade to Qt 5.12:

Splash image is not displayed correctly

This should also be the case in stable/devel already, given the source, but fix is inbound in the 5.12 branch.

He might refer to
dev vs

Qt5.12

dobey · 2 Sept 2020, 17:09

@CiberSheep said in Testing the upgrade to Qt 5.12:

He might refer to

Yes. I meant, I don't understand why this doesn't happen in dev, because the Splash.qml was specifying the source size as the same dimensions of the screen. But as I also said, it's fixed now on 5.12 branch too (well building currently).

CiberSheep · 2 Sept 2020, 17:12

@dobey I see.
Also to note, if no splash screen is used, the app icon is shown correctly

kugiigi · 2 Sept 2020, 17:22

@dobey Let us know when we can do an update and retest stuffs

lduboeuf · 9 Feb 2020, 17:36

@dobey said in Testing the upgrade to Qt 5.12:

Can you get stack traces?

Which one ?. App logs don't have nothing. I can give the unity8.log but i think it is the same as my initial reply for the sfxr crash. Will do tomorrow if needed
https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/khrnt9xc2R/

danqo6 · 2 Sept 2020, 18:01

@dobey I am still getting one missing column in portrait on OnePlus 3T (getting 3, should 4), in landscape it is fixed now.

dobey · 2 Sept 2020, 19:17

@lduboeuf I mean, if it's actually crashing, to get a stack trace you need to use gdb. I think you can do clickable debug now to debug remotely.

kugiigi · 3 Sept 2020, 10:07

Updates after retesting:

Splash image in core apps look good now but it seems that the dimension logic is still different than the current one. My apps that use SVG splash images looks small like it's almost the same size as the icon (i.e. Palitan, Fluffy Chat). They should be displayed bigger.
Contacts bottom edge is working properly now.

Others not mentioned are still the same

CiberSheep · 9 May 2020, 02:07

Today I have:

installed RC image (from System Settings)
removed some old apps
installed Dev image
Installed the updagrade

I got this warning before installing it:

Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  libqgsttools-p1 libqt5multimediaquick-p5 qtdeclarative5-accounts-plugin
  qtdeclarative5-folderlistmodel-plugin qtdeclarative5-localstorage-plugin
  qtdeclarative5-online-accounts-client0.1 qtdeclarative5-particles-plugin
  qtdeclarative5-qtcontacts-plugin qtdeclarative5-qtorganizer-plugin
  qtdeclarative5-qtquick2-plugin qtdeclarative5-ubuntu-mediascanner0.1
  qtdeclarative5-ubuntu-settings-components qtdeclarative5-window-plugin
  qtdeclarative5-xmllistmodel-plugin
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.

and this after installing:

The following packages will be REMOVED:
  libqgsttools-p1 libqt5multimediaquick-p5 qtdeclarative5-accounts-plugin
  qtdeclarative5-folderlistmodel-plugin qtdeclarative5-localstorage-plugin
  qtdeclarative5-online-accounts-client0.1 qtdeclarative5-particles-plugin
  qtdeclarative5-qtcontacts-plugin qtdeclarative5-qtorganizer-plugin
  qtdeclarative5-qtquick2-plugin qtdeclarative5-ubuntu-mediascanner0.1
  qtdeclarative5-ubuntu-settings-components qtdeclarative5-window-plugin
  qtdeclarative5-xmllistmodel-plugin
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 14 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
After this operation, 845 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]

(I say no)
Full log: https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/ZfZdpz3MqF/

CiberSheep · 9 May 2020, 02:39

I have been testing some apps:
Work:

OpenStore
Dialer
Address Book
Camera
Gallery
UTTT
System Settings
Linphone

Crash after splash:

Calendar
Calculator
Weather
Clock

I did a test with a clickable create qml app. Unconfined opens, confined crashed on start

The only difference when doing clickable logs is:
confined:
Loading module: 'libubuntu_application_api_touch_mirclient.so.3.0.0'

unconfined:

Loading module: 'libubuntu_application_api_touch_mirclient.so.3.0.0'
Creating a QMirClientScreen now

dobey · 5 Sept 2020, 14:58

@CiberSheep That is not a warning, and it is correct behavior. Those packages will not be in the rootfs any more, after Qt 5.12 lands.

danqo6 · 7 Sept 2020, 21:48

I found an another issue: apps are unable to save settings, settings are not saved after app restart. Settings from .config folder are loaded fine. Happens with Podbird, OpenStore, Quickddit and more
Found in log from QQC2 Gallery app:

file:///opt/click.ubuntu.com/qqc2-gallery.ubad/1.0.7/qml/Main.qml:67:5: QML Settings: Failed to initialize QSettings instance. Status code is: 1

dobey · 8 Sept 2020, 13:40

@danqo6 Odd. It's working fine with Authenticator NG.

Edit: Also just tried OpenStore and QQC2 Gallery, and both work fine (though scaling gets broken in the latter when switching to styles other than Suru).

dobey · 8 Sept 2020, 14:56

@kugiigi said in Testing the upgrade to Qt 5.12:

PDFs are blank in Document viewer except in slideshow mode. Libreoffice files crashes the app.

OK. Finally tried this in my VM, and there's nothing in the log unfortunately. There was one issue about an undefined object, which I resolved to no avail.

Looking at the source, it seems the poppler back-end requires qtdeclarative5-private-dev which means it likely must be re-compiled against Qt 5.12 to work.

dobey · 11 Sept 2020, 18:24

@CiberSheep said in Testing the upgrade to Qt 5.12:

Crash after splash:

I'm unable to replicate a crash with any of these apps mentioned. Only thing close is Calculator which becomes frozen, apparently due to the changes regarding the JavaScript Object, and it cannot initialize the MathJS code.

There are some issues with Calendar using the long-deprecated Tabs component, and week/month/year views overlaying on top of the tabs, along with some pre-existing warnings coming from uitk.

Weather had a few warnings, but was otherwise working fine, and I've submitted a PR to fix the new warnings in it.

Clock seems to work fine.

All of these were tested on my Nexus 4.