Arch package list

[Xananax]

It seems that on Arch, the packages needed are:

sudo pacman -S python-pyqt5 qt5-declarative qt5-quickcontrols

I was able to run QtodoTxt2 after that, albeit with pixellated fonts and icons, not sure what it is due to.

[topas-rec]

Can you try to add this in the dependencies for the DEbian packaging and see if the package created with these dependencies installs fine in arch?

QTodoTxt2/packaging/Debian/control.tpl

Line 6 in 49f999b

Depends: python3 (>=3.2), python3-pyqt5, python3-dateutil, qtdeclarative5-models-plugin, python3-pyqt5.qtquick, qml-module-qtquick-controls, qml-module-qtquick-dialogs, qml-module-qt-labs-settings, qml-module-qt-labs-folderlistmodel

[Xananax]

I think I already do. If I understand correctly:

• Arch's python-pyqt5 provides Debian's python3-pyqt5, python3-dateutil
• Arch's qt5-declarative provides Debian's qtdeclarative5-models-plugin, qml-module-qt-labs-settings, qml-module-qt-labs-folderlistmodel
• Arch's qt5-quickcontrols provides Debian's python3-pyqt5.qtquick, qml-module-qtquick-controls, qml-module-qtquick-dialogs

I looked up the files provided by each Debian package, and then looked for which Arch package provides them. I don't think I missed anything. The pixellated stuff might be because of HiDPI (I have a 4k screen).

Here is a screenshot with some surroundings so you can see the difference:

As you can see, the menu items work fine, it's the sidebar that looks weird

I should probably open a different issue with that, but as long as there isn't official support for Arch, I can't rule out something specific to Arch packages.

[topas-rec]

I wanted to point out that we should create a new Debian package that already knows about these dependencies for arch. For this we need to add the dependencies in the control.tpl file.

I just searched the possibility to install .deb files in arch. That seems not ideal:
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/83540/installing-a-deb-package-on-arch-is-it-possible
Better would be to create a pacman package with all dependencies. Can you try to create an arch package?

[Xananax]

I've never done that, but I gave it a shot:

https://github.com/Xananax/qtodotxt2-package

It seems to be... Working? I'm not sure how to test it; it works for me. A few things of note:

1. I couldn't find an icon in the repo, so I am downloading the .ico file from the previous version's repo
2. ...but the .desktop file refers to a .png, so I'm renaming it. It's not very clean. Is there a better alternative?
3. The desktop file calls the qtodotxt executable. Since I wanted people to still be able to install qtodotxt2 and 1 side by side, I'm modifying the .desktop

Lastly, I have literally no time these days, and I am not sure I would be able to maintain a package, even one as simple as this one; I'm willing to try, but if it takes too much investment, I unfortunately won't be able to.

How would you like to proceed? Should I PR with the package build?