Backport Windows support from KDE Konsole #578
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unistd.h is not avaliable on MSVC, but we do not use any functions from it
BlockArray based history types are now disabled when Q_OS_WIN is defined. Also other history types do not use mmap to map files now.
Backported from konsole
was added to UNIX_SRCS in one of the previous commits and i forgot to remove it from SRCS
breaks Session
This commit also introduces 2 new public helper functions for Session::close(): closeInNormalWay() and closeInForceWay(). These are backported from KDE Konsole
Courier New is only default monospaced font on windows
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I really doubt that this can be included in LXQt. Why don't you make a Windows fork instead? |
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Why though? This doesn’t really break any existing code and support for windows was requested in #42 (and btw it was mentioned there that PRs would be merged), #491 & #494 . ConPTY code is borrowed on the same basics as KPty stuff (and is MIT licensed). I really don’t want to fork whole library, because then I would have to maintain entirety of it. |
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Because LXQt doesn't have the required manpower to support Windows.
Exactly ;) That's what LXQt can't do either. |
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Okay, that makes sense. What if I could help with maintaining windows support? |
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That would be very nice. But the question remains as to who will review this PR? As the current maintainer of qterminal+qtermwidget, I don't (and won't) have Windows (to say nothing of the time). So, I suggest that we could wait to see if an LXQt dev will review it, knowing that there's no promise. And please don't get me wrong: your contribution is very appreciated — I know how hard it may have been to do this — but this area may be outside LXQt. I'm just talking about facts. |
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BTW, all the reports you mentioned above were closed. I refer you to the last reply of the previous maintainer: #491 (comment) |
Okay then. I needed to implement windows support for one of my personal projects (which depends on qtermwidget), so I ported Windows support here. I don't have a need for it to be upstreamed, but I thought this PR could be of use, so there isn't any pressure from my part. |
Backport Windows support from KDE Konsole