Bug 472992 – net-analyzer/wireshark - add Qt support

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Andrei Slavoiu 2013-06-11 15:18:11 UTC]

Since version 1.7 wireshark has an alternative GUI written in Qt that can be selected at compile time. The attached patch for the wireshark-1.10.0.ebuild adds a new qt4 USE flag that will do just this. I made the qt4 flag incompatible with the gtk one to make it clear that both can not be built at the same time. I tested the qt4 GUI and it's usable, a lot faster then the Gtk one but with a lot less features.

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Andrei Slavoiu 2013-06-11 15:19:36 UTC]

Created attachment 350750 [details, diff]
wireshark-1.10.0.ebuild.patch

[Comment 2 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2013-06-11 16:06:56 UTC]

Looks good. I'm testing now. Also found that python support is deprecated. I'll probably commit an -r1.

[Comment 3 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2013-06-11 16:26:17 UTC]

(In reply to Jeroen Roovers from comment #2)
> Also found that python support is deprecated.

./configure --with-python, that is:

configure: WARNING: unrecognized options: --with-python

[Comment 4 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2013-06-11 23:28:26 UTC]

Also, I guess I will set IUSE=+gtk, since the Qt UI is very different and doesn't seem to be as finished as the GTK+ UI. Given enough complaints I may reconsider that, naturally.

[Comment 5 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2013-06-11 23:42:25 UTC]

Done. Thanks for the patch!

[Comment 6 Andrei Slavoiu 2013-06-12 15:22:28 UTC]

I just noticed the icons and desktop file are not installed for the Qt gui, I'll log a new bug for this.