[Bug 1832798] [NEW] Better qt experience out of the box (suggestion)

[Carlos Pita]

Public bug reported:

(I'm unsure about the right package to report this to)

The qt experience out of the box is currently a mess. Short of proper
Yaru integration, why not install qt5ct with consistent Ubuntu fonts and
icons and Breeze by default? Every qt app will work just fine with
Breeze. Currently we’re exposing a newcomer that barely knows that gtk
and qt are things, let alone different things, to a difficult manual
configuration process that’s not even well documented. That’s much worse
than theme integration issues. A new user wanting to launch lyx or
qbittorrent should just launch lyx or qbittorrent and have a pleasant
experience. That’s not so hard:

* Preinstall kde-style-breeze and qt5ct
* Set ubuntu fonts, dialogs and icons in qt5ct
* Add
    export QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=qt5ct
    export QT_AUTO_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTOR=1
  to the default profile.

** Affects: ubuntu-meta (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Description changed:

  (I'm unsure about the right package to report this to)
  
  The qt experience out of the box is currently a mess. Short of proper
  Yaru integration, why not install qt5ct with consistent Ubuntu fonts and
  icons and Breeze by default? Every qt app will work just fine with
  Breeze. Currently we’re exposing a newcomer that barely knows gtk and qt
  are things, let alone different things, to a difficult manual
  configuration process that’s not even well documented. That’s much worse
  than theme integration issues. A new user wanting to launch lyx or
  qbittorrent should just launch lyx or qbittorrent and have a pleasant
  experience. That’s not so hard:
  
- Preinstall kde-style-breeze and qt5ct
- Set ubuntu fonts, dialogs and icons in qt5ct
- Add
- export QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=qt5ct
- export QT_AUTO_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTOR=1
- 
- to the default profile.
+ * Preinstall kde-style-breeze and qt5ct
+ * Set ubuntu fonts, dialogs and icons in qt5ct
+ * Add
+     export QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=qt5ct
+     export QT_AUTO_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTOR=1
+   to the default profile.

** Description changed:

  (I'm unsure about the right package to report this to)
  
  The qt experience out of the box is currently a mess. Short of proper
  Yaru integration, why not install qt5ct with consistent Ubuntu fonts and
  icons and Breeze by default? Every qt app will work just fine with
- Breeze. Currently we’re exposing a newcomer that barely knows gtk and qt
- are things, let alone different things, to a difficult manual
+ Breeze. Currently we’re exposing a newcomer that barely knows that gtk
+ and qt are things, let alone different things, to a difficult manual
  configuration process that’s not even well documented. That’s much worse
  than theme integration issues. A new user wanting to launch lyx or
  qbittorrent should just launch lyx or qbittorrent and have a pleasant
  experience. That’s not so hard:
  
  * Preinstall kde-style-breeze and qt5ct
  * Set ubuntu fonts, dialogs and icons in qt5ct
  * Add
-     export QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=qt5ct
-     export QT_AUTO_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTOR=1
-   to the default profile.
+     export QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=qt5ct
+     export QT_AUTO_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTOR=1
+   to the default profile.

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Title:
  Better qt experience out of the box (suggestion)

Status in ubuntu-meta package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  (I'm unsure about the right package to report this to)

  The qt experience out of the box is currently a mess. Short of proper
  Yaru integration, why not install qt5ct with consistent Ubuntu fonts
  and icons and Breeze by default? Every qt app will work just fine with
  Breeze. Currently we’re exposing a newcomer that barely knows that gtk
  and qt are things, let alone different things, to a difficult manual
  configuration process that’s not even well documented. That’s much
  worse than theme integration issues. A new user wanting to launch lyx
  or qbittorrent should just launch lyx or qbittorrent and have a
  pleasant experience. That’s not so hard:

  * Preinstall kde-style-breeze and qt5ct
  * Set ubuntu fonts, dialogs and icons in qt5ct
  * Add
      export QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=qt5ct
      export QT_AUTO_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTOR=1
    to the default profile.

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