Experimental builds

[letsfindaway]

Qt 5:
Qt 6:

I'm now changing my strategy for experimental builds on the openSUSE Build Service. In #89, the target was to provide early access to the development status of 1.7.0. Now that 1.7.0 is out, I will create a new experimental version for each alpha, beta, release candidate and release version of OpenBoard, i.e. a new build whenever the version number in the version.txt file changes.

As 1.7.7 is nearly complete but will still take some time to be released, I'm now building a pre-release of that version. Testers are welcome!

The number of additional patches is kept to a minimum. As the only feature, I still add the OpenBoard-org#955 pull request for configurable keyboard shortcuts to most builds.

The list of distribution versions of my builds using Qt5 or Qt6 is currently:

• openSUSE Leap 15.6
• openSUSE Leap 16.0
• openSUSE Tumbleweed
• Debian 12
• Debian 13
• Debian Testing (14)
• Debian Unstable (15)
• Ubuntu 23.04
• Ubuntu 23.10
• Ubuntu 24.04
• Ubuntu 24.10
• Ubuntu 25.04
• Ubuntu 25.10
• Arch Linux

If you want to check them out, you can download the ready-built binary packages or even add the repositories as a package source. To download a package:

• Go to the experimental OpenBoard project at OpenBoard-Qt6 project.
• To the right, click on your distribution.
• Download the package from there.

Note: Packages built with Qt5 are deprecated and will no longer be provided.

You may also add the repository URL to your package manager to enable automatic updates for new experimental builds.

Please note that these builds - in contrast to the official ones

• install to /usr/bin and /usr/share/openboard (not /opt),
• install configuration files to /etc/openboard,
• never contain a bundled Qt version but always use the platform's current version.

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Thank for the openboard_1.7.2-1_amd64.deb build at build.opensuse.org.
Works with Kubuntu 24.04 on the Lenovo Ideapad Miix 510 with its pen. Only the launcher is missing, possibly because the Flatpak version was installed.
Regards.

[letsfindaway]

Thank for the openboard_1.7.2-1_amd64.deb build at build.opensuse.org. Works with Kubuntu 24.04 on the Lenovo Ideapad Miix 510 with its pen. Only the launcher is missing, possibly because the Flatpak version was installed. Regards.

Happy that it works for you!

A .desktop file should be installed with those packages at /usr/share/applications/ch.openboard.OpenBoard.desktop. This file should be recognized by typical desktop environments. Of course it might be that this conflicts with another starter created from the Flatpak. However those are typically in another location, e.g. /var/lib/flatpak/exports/share/application. It might also be that just restarting your desktop helps to recognize the .desktop file.