Description of problem: I have two problems: 1. The GUI is only available in "english". 2. The page with examples is empty. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): qt-creator.x86_64 3.3.2-2.fc21 How reproducible: Always. Tried it with a fresh user too. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Under Tools->Options->Environment->UserInterface->Language the preselected language setting is "<System Language>", but the GUI is always in english. 2. Select Welcome->Examples. Actual results: 1. Cannot change language. Only entries are "<System Language>" and "English". 2. Empty page. Expected results: 1. The GUI should use the selected system language and I should be able to change the language from a list of all available languages. 2. List of all available examples. Additional info: I installed the binary package from Qt's webpage and there I have the german translations and all examples. I installed all additional sub-packages. 1. I looked, if the translations are available: #> ll /usr/share/qtcreator/translations/ insgesamt 10000 -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1534335 9. Mär 23:41 qtcreator_cs.qm -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1348835 9. Mär 23:41 qtcreator_de.qm -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1451032 9. Mär 23:41 qtcreator_fr.qm -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1111087 9. Mär 23:41 qtcreator_ja.qm -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1195874 9. Mär 23:41 qtcreator_pl.qm -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1278242 9. Mär 23:41 qtcreator_ru.qm -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 890696 9. Mär 23:41 qtcreator_sl.qm -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 765591 9. Mär 23:41 qtcreator_zh_CN.qm -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 646886 9. Mär 23:41 qtcreator_zh_TW.qm And I do not understand the reason, because it seems, that the binary finds the translation file: 24286 access("/usr/bin/../share/qtcreator/translations/qtcreator_de_DE.qm", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) 24286 access("/usr/bin/../share/qtcreator/translations/qtcreator_de_DE", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) 24286 access("/usr/bin/../share/qtcreator/translations/qtcreator_de.qm", R_OK) = 0 24286 stat("/usr/bin/../share/qtcreator/translations/qtcreator_de.qm", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1348835, ...}) = 0 24286 open("/usr/bin/../share/qtcreator/translations/qtcreator_de.qm", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 11 24286 fcntl(11, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0 24286 fstat(11, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1348835, ...}) = 0 24286 fstat(11, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1348835, ...}) = 0 24286 read(11, "<\270d\30\312\357\234\225\315!\34\277`\241\275\335", 16) = 16 24286 mmap(NULL, 1348835, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 11, 0) = 0x7f651b935000 24286 close(11) = 0 24286 access("/usr/share/qt5/translations/qt_de_DE.qm", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) 24286 access("/usr/share/qt5/translations/qt_de_DE", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) 24286 access("/usr/share/qt5/translations/qt_de.qm", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) 24286 access("/usr/share/qt5/translations/qt_de", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) 24286 access("/usr/share/qt5/translations/qt.qm", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) 24286 access("/usr/share/qt5/translations/qt", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) 24286 access("/usr/bin/../share/qtcreator/translations/qt_de_DE.qm", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) 24286 access("/usr/bin/../share/qtcreator/translations/qt_de_DE", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) 24286 access("/usr/bin/../share/qtcreator/translations/qt_de.qm", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) 24286 access("/usr/bin/../share/qtcreator/translations/qt_de", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) 24286 access("/usr/bin/../share/qtcreator/translations/qt.qm", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) 24286 access("/usr/bin/../share/qtcreator/translations/qt", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) 24286 munmap(0x7f651b935000, 1348835) = 0 2. The binary also access the "examples.qml" file (and others), but the list stays empty: 24508 open("/usr/share/qtcreator/welcomescreen/examples.qml", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 23 24508 fcntl(23, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0 24508 fstat(23, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2884, ...}) = 0 24508 fstat(23, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2884, ...}) = 0 24508 fstat(23, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2884, ...}) = 0 24508 read(23, "/*******************************"..., 16384) = 2884 24508 read(23, "", 13500) = 0 24508 close(23) = 0 24508 open("/usr/share/qtcreator/welcomescreen/widgets/CustomizedGridView.qml", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 23 24508 fcntl(23, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0 I think this is a problem with the packaging (or patches) and not a bug in the qtcreator itself. The maintainer should test these two points and maybe should compare the package with the pre-packaged QtCreator from the Qt Website.
Concerning the examples: a search through the qt-creator source code shows that examples to list are retreived from "examples-manifest.xml" files in various locations. For Qt4, such a file exists (/usr/lib64/qt4/examples/examples-manifest.xml), and indeed installing qt-examples results in the Qt4 examples being visible in the Examples section of the welcome screen. For Qt5, there does not appear to be any /usr/lib64/qt5/examples/examples-manifest.xml (and I don't see it in the respective qt5-examples packages of other distros also), so I'm not sure how exactly they are supposed to be loaded. FWIW, the relevant code for loading the examples is in src/plugins/qtsupport/exampleslistmodel.cpp in the qt-creator sources. If you can also take a minute for further investigations, it would be appreciated. For the locale: scanning at the code in src/plugins/coreplugin/generalsettings.cpp in the qt-creator sources (in particular GeneralSettings::fillLanguageBox() and hasQmFilesForLocale()), it seems that unless the qt translations for a specific language are installed, the respective qt-creator translations also aren't made available. So make sure you have installed qt5-qttranslations, from the strace you posted it does not appear to be the case.
Thanks for your quick answers. 1. Regarding the localization problem: Installing the "qt5-qttranslations" package fixed my problem. It would be nice, if the qt-creator package would add this package as a "recommends" or "suggests". 2. The problem with the examples seems to be a little bit harder.. Running the qtcreator in "examples debug mode" shows the following: #> QTC_DEBUG_EXAMPLESMODEL=1 qtcreator Reading Help/InstalledExamples from settings: () "Reading file "/usr/share/qtcreator/welcomescreen/qtcreator_tutorials.xml"..." It doesn't even try to read any examples manifest?! And strace does not show any try to access it too... When I install the precompiled QTCreator I see the following: QTC_DEBUG_EXAMPLESMODEL=1 ./qtcreator.sh "Reading file '/home/anders/work/Qt5.2.1/Tools/QtCreator/share/qtcreator/welcomescreen/qtcreator_tutorials.xml'..." "Reading file '/home/anders/work/Qt5.2.1/5.2.1/gcc_64/doc/activeqt/examples-manifest.xml'..." "Reading file '/home/anders/work/Qt5.2.1/5.2.1/gcc_64/doc/activeqt/demos-manifest.xml'..." "Reading file '/home/anders/work/Qt5.2.1/5.2.1/gcc_64/doc/qdoc/examples-manifest.xml'..." "Reading file '/home/anders/work/Qt5.2.1/5.2.1/gcc_64/doc/qdoc/demos-manifest.xml'..." The documentation on this webpage did not help either: https://wiki.qt.io/Qt-Creator-Qt-Examples I think I need some more time to test it...
Hmmm. I think I solved this problem too. I had to install the packages: qt5-qtbase-doc qt5-qtbase-examples So maybe two additional package to add as a recommendation. Thanks for your time!
Oh, qt5-qtbase-doc is not being built in rawhide, so missed that package in my debugging effort. Filed as #1212750. Concerning soft dependencies (aka Suggests), yum does not handle those, you'll need dnf which is default in F22+. But I'd wait for some guidelines on their use appearing before adding them in the spec. Thanks for your debugging!
I've also suggested in #1212750 to put /usr/share/doc/qt5/qdoc/examples-manifest.xml in qt5-qtbase-examples, so that installing qt5-qtbase-examples alone is sufficient to get the examples appearing.