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hl037_
hl037_

Reputation: 3867

How to prevent Qt Designer from loading incompatible plugins?

Qt Designer and Qt Creator when trying to edit ui files have started to crash recently. I've found it's because of KDE widget plugins that are built for a previous version. However, I can't find a way to disable them. Is there a way to do this?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 871

Answers (1)

ekhumoro
ekhumoro

Reputation: 120578

For Qt Designer, there is a config option that allows you to disable specific plugins. Exactly how you do this may differ for each platform, but on my Arch Linux system I have the following config files:

  • Qt5: $HOME/.config/QtProject/Designer.conf
  • Qt4: $HOME/.config/Trolltech/Designer.conf

And in the Qt5 file, I have disabled all the KDE plugins by adding a section like this:

[PluginManager]
DisabledPlugins=/usr/lib/qt/plugins/designer/kdewebkit5widgets.so, /usr/lib/qt/plugins/designer/kf5deprecatedwidgets.so, /usr/lib/qt/plugins/designer/kf5widgets.so

So it's just a matter of adding the full path of any plugin you want to disable to a comma-separated list.

I don't use Qt Creator, but if the above doesn't work, I understand it may also be possible to disable plugins via Help -> About Plugins.

Upvotes: 1

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