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Qalculate! GTK+ UI
https://qalculate.github.io/
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Win7/8/8.1 Compatibility #341

Open Gitoffthelawn opened 2 years ago

Gitoffthelawn commented 2 years ago

I noticed this in the latest changelog for the GTK version of Qalculate: "The new Qt GUI requires Windows 10 or later."

How does this affect Qalculate (GTK) compatibility with boxes running Win7 & Win8/8.1? Or is that text just included in the GTK Qalculate changelog to remind people not to use the Qt version on Win7/8/8.1?

hanna-kn commented 2 years ago

qalculate-gtk compatibility is not affected.

All the Windows packages does however also include qalculate-qt, and users should not expect qalculate-qt.exe (and associated icons) to work with old Windows versions. Qt (6.2) no longer supports Windows 7/8, and I haven't been able to run the qalculate-qt binaries in Windows 7. It would be possible for me to compile qalculate-qt using an older Qt version, but considering that ordinary users (without extended security updates) shouldn't use Windows 7 (and security updates will end for all in a year), I did not deem it worth the effort.