OSX: Ctrl + Option + "Б" and Ctrl + Option + "Ю" not works

[dm3ch]

Steps to reproduce

Try to print dot or comma using described below key combinations on macOS standard Russian layout.

Expected behaviour

. should be printed when ctrl+option+> (ю) pressed
, should be printed when ctrl+option+< (б) pressed

Actual behaviour

Nothing printed when specified key combinations pressed

Operating system

MacOS 12.4

Version of Telegram Desktop

v4.1

Installation source

Static binary from official website

Logs

No response

[dm3ch]

Actually, there is an old already closed issue describing the same problem #2468

The only information I found there is to look into #1060 , but I wasn't able to find any related info.

P.S. Key combinations described in this issue are not some custom shortcuts, but a official way of printing this characters on macOS standard Russian layout (for me it works in all applications except Telegram Desktop)

[ilya-fedin]

Have you checked other Qt applications like qBittorrent or VLC?

[dm3ch]

Have you checked other Qt applications like qBittorrent or VLC?

Just checked in VLC 3.0.17.3 in playlist search input these combinations work fine.

[ilya-fedin]

It's better to check qBittorrent (the one that built with Qt 6). I don't know what Qt version VLC uses on macOS, but on Windows it still uses Qt 4 while tdesktop uses Qt 6, no surprise if there would be big differences in behavior.

[dm3ch]

qBittorent 4.4.3.1 (on QT 6) problem reproduced. Probably you are right and this is a QT issue.

[dm3ch]

Created an issue in QT bug tracker, maybe we would find some help there - https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-106393

[ilya-fedin]

It seems VLC on macOS doesn't use Qt: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VLC_media_player#Interfaces
So it's not really known whether Qt 4 is affected or not

[dm3ch]

QT closed the issue as fixed. They wrote that fix version is: 6.5.0 Beta1

[ilya-fedin]

How fast

[dm3ch]

Created PR with attempt to bump QT version for MacOS build.

I'm not sure if I done this right, but I need workflow approves to try to build it

[ilya-fedin]

It's sadly not that simple, first the patches in https://github.com/desktop-app/patches should be updated as there are new API uses that break macOS 10.12+ build in Qt. Then ui_window_mac, main_window_mac should be prepared for winId change in runtime as it changes now due to QtWidgets refactoring in Qt 6.4 to support RHI. Maybe changing the order of some calls would be enough though, so OpenGL is initialized before native window creation.

Testing with workflows is not a good thing to do as they go 6+ hours.

[23rd]

QT closed the issue as fixed. They wrote that fix version is: 6.5.0 Beta1

Are you sure that the 6.4.1 version fixes the problem?

[ilya-fedin]

It seems the fix will be only in 6.4.2

[ilya-fedin]

Ah, it's actually in 6.4.1, but the fix broke some other IM-related thing and now there's yet another fix that will be in 6.4.2

[dm3ch]

Ahh, you are right, just realized that fix version is marked as 6.5.0-Beta1.

About using pipelines for test purposes - I got your point. It seems I'm too much out of scope/experience to do this version bump by myself. :(

[dm3ch]

By the way, if you are already managing patches for Qt in a separate repo, maybe it would be easier to backport a bugfix as a patch to currently used version instead of working on a QT version upgrade?

[23rd]

I think I can check later how difficult it would be to update the QT version.

[dm3ch]

Just checked today, dot and comma key combinations finally works, TY 🎉