No suitable kits can be found. How do I solve this?
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@puflin Your first post here and you're already teaching others how to behave?
Also, this is a developer forum, not end-user. As a developer one should be able to handle such responses (take a look at Linux developer mailing list and what Linus sometimes says/writes if you want to know how it can be in one of THE open source projects).For such off-topic discussions I would suggest to go to https://forum.qt.io/category/7/the-lounge
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@FPChris said in No suitable kits can be found. How do I solve this?:
They really need to default check a version of Qt.
Too hard to do one more click to select the desired version by your own?
@Christian-Ehrlicher Perhaps as a GraPHicAL USeR INterFaCe framework, Qt needs to learn a bit about what's a reasonable default, and stop trying to confuse its users in the very first bit at the installation process. Or maybe your UI logic has always been "my users MUST be smart enough to get everything right even when the default is completely misleading"? This might explain why there are so many hard-to-use apps out there.
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@Christian-Ehrlicher Perhaps as a GraPHicAL USeR INterFaCe framework, Qt needs to learn a bit about what's a reasonable default, and stop trying to confuse its users in the very first bit at the installation process. Or maybe your UI logic has always been "my users MUST be smart enough to get everything right even when the default is completely misleading"? This might explain why there are so many hard-to-use apps out there.
@OTZzzz said in No suitable kits can be found. How do I solve this?:
Qt needs to learn a bit about what's a reasonable default
See the screenshot in my last post.
Welcome, by the way. Nice way to make an entrance.
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@FPChris tell me then the glaringly obvious place where you are asked to set this up and/or correct it if you missed it initially when installing through apt-get?
@Christian-Ehrlicher said in No suitable kits can be found. How do I solve this?:
@FPChris said in No suitable kits can be found. How do I solve this?:
They really need to default check a version of Qt.
Too hard to do one more click to select the desired version by your own?
Please stop this, it's unsupportive and unhelpful. It is also, sadly exactly what I'd expect from certain members of the FOSS community with the mentality that everyone should either know everything already or go through the same pains to learn it as they did and ignoring the mainstream end-user entirely in the process, which is exactly why Linux as a desktop kernel has taken so long to catch on/become relevant to general users.
There's something called an end user, learn to respect that or you are not a very good developer.
@puflin I complete agree with your sentiment. We should strive to make things as easy as possible for end-users, not say "oh, is that too hard for you?" whenever they suggest how to make things easier. That's a great way to get fired from companies that actually care about design and putting out state-of-the-art products.
I completely agree with your assessment of some members in the FOSS community, as well.
It's sad that someone else chastised you for being new, when the other person wasn't being helpful at all.
Keep up the good work, and don't let these people bring you down with their tunnel-vision and gatekeeping. It's not healthy for the community.
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For the record: I encountered the same situation after 2 years. I thought it was caused by another problem that already existed and struggled for 1 hour so thanks for the answer.
Custom installation should definitely include a warning. And I hope the community is not always full of friends like the ones above.
Record over.
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For the record: I encountered the same situation after 2 years. I thought it was caused by another problem that already existed and struggled for 1 hour so thanks for the answer.
Custom installation should definitely include a warning. And I hope the community is not always full of friends like the ones above.
Record over.
@Von4 said in No suitable kits can be found. How do I solve this?:
For the record: I encountered the same situation after 2 years. I thought it was caused by another problem that already existed and struggled for 1 hour so thanks for the answer.
Custom installation should definitely include a warning. And I hope the community is not always full of friends like the ones above.
Record over.
Same here. Just downloaded the latest release from the official page, and there were no options for installing these so-called 'kits' along the installation process.
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@Von4 said in No suitable kits can be found. How do I solve this?:
For the record: I encountered the same situation after 2 years. I thought it was caused by another problem that already existed and struggled for 1 hour so thanks for the answer.
Custom installation should definitely include a warning. And I hope the community is not always full of friends like the ones above.
Record over.
Same here. Just downloaded the latest release from the official page, and there were no options for installing these so-called 'kits' along the installation process.
@Jalim_Rabei Kits is a QtCreator thing. You just need to install Qt and in case you installed Qt for MinGW on Windows also MinGW. QtCreator will detect installed Qt versions and compilers and create Kits. You can modify these Kits or create new Kits by yourself if needed.
