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Bug 953262 - x11-misc/barrier[gui] must port to Qt6
Summary: x11-misc/barrier[gui] must port to Qt6
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal
Assignee: James Le Cuirot
URL: https://github.com/debauchee/barrier/...
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Keywords: PullRequest
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Blocks: qt5-removal
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Reported: 2025-04-05 21:33 UTC by Andreas Sturmlechner
Modified: 2025-04-22 22:28 UTC (History)
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Description Andreas Sturmlechner gentoo-dev 2025-04-05 21:33:27 UTC
Last commit from 3 years ago. Qt6 porting PR was filed, then closed a year later. Is there any hope for this package?
Comment 1 James Le Cuirot gentoo-dev 2025-04-05 21:39:15 UTC
Actually, this has been superseded by https://github.com/input-leap/input-leap. There was lots of activity for ages, but no actual releases. In the meantime, I switched to Wayland, which barrier doesn't support, and have made do with
net-misc/netevent ever since. I gave up checking on input-leap, but I now see they have actually done some releases back in October, so I'll arrange a bump and package move.
Comment 2 Paul Zander 2025-04-06 11:10:30 UTC
input-leap is in ::guru, I could update the old ebuild with my local version and you could see if that suites you.
Comment 3 James Le Cuirot gentoo-dev 2025-04-18 22:12:47 UTC
The one in guru is up-to-date now. I've been working on this, and I've made the necessary changes to build it without any X11 support. It still needs xorg-proto because the EI backend uses XKB keymaps. I'll submit this upstream once I've tested it out.
Comment 4 James Le Cuirot gentoo-dev 2025-04-20 08:25:45 UTC
So it turns out input-leap is actually dead. :-/ It has now been superseded by https://github.com/deskflow/deskflow, which is like a cousin. Both projects are descended from older versions of Synergy. Synergy still exists as a partly proprietary variant of Deskflow. We still have x11-misc/synergy packaged, but it is maintainer-needed. I doubt there's much interest in the proprietary version, so I now propose we package move that and x11-misc/barrier into
gui-apps/deskflow. We don't have an ebuild for that yet, but it will look similar.
Comment 5 James Le Cuirot gentoo-dev 2025-04-22 22:28:12 UTC
(In reply to James Le Cuirot from comment #4)
> So it turns out input-leap is actually dead. :-/ It has now been superseded
> by https://github.com/deskflow/deskflow, which is like a cousin

Or maybe not. The person who told me that doesn't actually represent input-leap, and someone who does has now contradicted him. Maybe we'll end up with both.