The branch relies on a patch on both gtk2 and qt sides which was supposed to be removed. It is also not fixing the bug on static binaries without the ubuntu qt or gtk libraries.
Thus, this looks more like a possible distropatch than being part of the real code.
At this time, we wait to see if we come up with a clean fix, that does not use external API which we were going to remove.
If we run out of ideas, this is part of the list of workarounds we can add as distropatches.
The branch relies on a patch on both gtk2 and qt sides which was supposed to be removed. It is also not fixing the bug on static binaries without the ubuntu qt or gtk libraries.
Thus, this looks more like a possible distropatch than being part of the real code.
At this time, we wait to see if we come up with a clean fix, that does not use external API which we were going to remove.
If we run out of ideas, this is part of the list of workarounds we can add as distropatches.