Changing Qt Account to be Optional in the Online Installer

Thanks for your feedback to the new online installer asking for a Qt Account signup. We have evaluated the feedback received via the blog, various discussion forums, irc and other channels. Based on all these comments and discussions with our partners we realize that this was not our finest moment. Preventing the growth and usage of Qt in the open source community is not what we want to happen. We did already see a nice jump in the number of Qt Accounts, but it was never our intention to make our valued community and contributors upset with us or stop using and contributing to Qt. We clearly ill-calculated how asking for a Qt Account with the online installer would make our users feel. A mistake. Sincere apologies.

Based on your feedback, we will remove the enforced Qt Account requirement for open source downloads. Instead, we will make it optional. Users can proceed to download by opting out of creating a Qt Account. Just like before, the commercial users need to provide their Qt Account so that we can point them to the additional content and commercial versions of Qt. We very much hope that we will see also many open-source users creating Qt Accounts either when installing Qt, or via qt.io.

The installer team is already looking at making this change, and we hope that an update can be rolled out next week. Even though the change may look small there is quite many things that we always need to verify before we roll out an update to production. So, please bear with us while we are implementing the change.

We will continue to develop our plans of bringing integrated services to Qt via the Qt Account. Next we are aiming to provide a single sign-on solution through the Qt Account to all our services (forums, wiki, bug reporting, customer portal, etc). Some of the services already leverage Qt Account for sign-on and new services will follow in the coming months. We are committed to developing Qt Account further and want to make it valuable for all users of Qt.

We do hope that this eases your concerns, and that we can continue with your trust. The open source community is what Qt is built on and we value your efforts and feedback greatly. We are very happy to have an active ecosystem around Qt and appreciate the dialogue. So, thanks again for your feedback, discussions and for guiding us in this tough endeavor. We are glad that we have a lot of passion for Qt and for its ongoing greatness in the community.


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Kelpsie Sponge
6 points
60 months ago

And we're back.

Jon Cormier
1 point
60 months ago

Yeah even old installers don't have the option to skip login... grrr

Никита из Киева
1 point
58 months ago

Ah shit, here we go again.

Никита из Киева
1 point
58 months ago

Ah shit, here we go again.

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Albert
0 points
118 months ago

Good move. Appreciate you listen to us :) Thanks!

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Elvis Stansvik
0 points
118 months ago

Thanks for listening. This is the right move. No hard feelings :) hugs

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Alejandro Exojo
0 points
118 months ago

Thank you for taking the criticism (that I hope we expressed the most constructive way). I actually think this clearly says how useful the Qt installer is, and how the community likes it. I used the Qt IFW for a customer project, and I think it's a very good underlying technology.

Not only that. I hope the repository system can be embraced by third party open source Qt-based libraries. With the Qt installer set up, one could add a new repository and have extra versions of Qt (e.g. cross compiled for ARM) or KDE frameworks, etc. Not requiring the login is a good thing for this.

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İsmail Dönmez
0 points
118 months ago

Thank you!

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Anonymous
0 points
118 months ago

Thank you for reconsidering and taking the best course.

I apologize in name of the many Internets out there for the FUD and harshness spread around some of the requests to change it. I guess many people have seen many things taken from them, and a misstep is all they need to go on full desperation again. No one wants to DREAM on losing Qt.

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Till Adam
0 points
118 months ago

Thanks, Tuukka and Qt Company for taking the concerns of the community seriously. Let's work together to make it worthwhile for every Qt user to have a Qt Account and engage with you guys and the rest of the Qt community.

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Dobbelj
0 points
118 months ago

Kudos for the quick turnaround when this hit, don't think it was anything malicious about the requirement, but since it made a lot of people uneasy it was a good move to remove the requirement and make it optional. :)

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Nayar
0 points
118 months ago

This is great news. Qt ftw!!!

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Rick Mars
0 points
118 months ago

Thank you! Apart from the technical merits of Qt, it's also nice they hear their users and developers (I'll however create a Qt Account for myself! ;-))

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David
0 points
118 months ago

Thanks for listening.
Apreciate.

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Vladest
0 points
118 months ago

After updating MaintenanceTool to version 2.0 it stop works behind proxy

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iieklund
0 points
118 months ago

Could you please file a bug report with all relevant details so we can have a further look in this. We tested the proxy functionality couple days ago without any issues (Ubuntu 14 and Windows7) but apparently it does not work properly in all occasions.

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Vladest
0 points
118 months ago

Not found reports for installer, so created for installer framework:
https://bugreports.qt.io/br...

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Fabio
0 points
118 months ago

Me too have same problem. But, in my case, major problem is in the new installer version there is no Settings button allow to set proxy params. What should be the right way for set proxy params and authentication using this new installer?
Thank you

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Vladest
0 points
118 months ago

Error message:
[39219] Sending Login request..
[159784] Warning: Network error during login: [ 4 ] "Socket operation timed out"
[159784] Warning: Connection to server failed. Trying again..

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iieklund
0 points
118 months ago

Investigating for the root cause.

It would help narrowing down the cause for the error to know from which country you are using the installer?

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Vladest
0 points
118 months ago

Its Sweden
Note, that Installer/MaintenanceTool 1.6.x works ok
The proxy is password protected

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iieklund
0 points
118 months ago

Did using "--verbose" from command line give additional information? Which OS+version you are using? Anything other relevant information about the system, we'll try to reproduce the issue.

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djfongang
0 points
118 months ago

Thanks! And keep listening.

Also, the QT toolkit is nice, but Qtcreator is THE greatest all round c/c++ dev IDE.

The only competition is Visual Studio and maybe Xcode but it is not really available on Ubuntu.

You guys could make a killing focusing on that.

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Kalle Dalheimer
0 points
118 months ago

Thanks for listening, Qt Company, much appreciated!

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Henrique das Neves
0 points
118 months ago

Thanks alot! This attitude makes Qt even better.

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xkrys
0 points
118 months ago

Thanks ;) Everyone can sleep easily now :D

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7
0 points
118 months ago

Good to see common sense prevailing for once. Hope it won't be the last time, Qt has much issues, more important than the installer, which need addressing but so far management was reluctant to address.

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stereomatching
0 points
118 months ago

What kind of issues?Bugs?QWidget and QCore become "obsolete"?

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stereomatching
0 points
118 months ago

Thanks for your listening, much appreciated(although I don't mind to register an account)

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JKSH
0 points
118 months ago

I salute the Qt Company for being so responsive to community feedback. Thank you for caring!

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Nejat
0 points
118 months ago

Although I think the unification of all Qt services within one Qt account makes everything more clear and convenient, but it is good that finally the login in online installer is optional.

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Sebastian
0 points
117 months ago

Thanks. You guys rock! :)

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X Y
0 points
60 months ago

So now you're just repeating the mistake? Or do you no longer care about making "our valued community and contributors upset with us or stop using and contributing to Qt"?

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Adam ♿ 🐧
0 points
60 months ago

2020: we're back to needing login. If you don't have time for that - http://download.qt.io/static/mirrorlist/

Andrew Ackerman
0 points
59 months ago

... They really don't want us to continue using Qt. Huge pain. Just downloading the entire offline installers for three platforms, 11 GB or something. Very efficient but whatever.

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Michał
0 points
58 months ago

Guys why you break things? CI suddenly stopped working because of reverting to no skip...

tuket
0 points
56 months ago

Is this required again?

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a
0 points
52 months ago

To avoid the account force, set the proxy settings to a non-existing server, e.g. 0.0.0.0:123