Merge pull request #287169 from K900/qt-docs

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@@ -3,72 +3,61 @@
 Writing Nix expressions for Qt libraries and applications is largely similar as for other C++ software.
 This section assumes some knowledge of the latter.
 
-The major caveat with Qt applications is that Qt uses a plugin system to load additional modules at runtime,
-from a list of well-known locations. In Nixpkgs, we patch QtCore to instead use an environment variable,
-and wrap Qt applications to set it to the right paths. This effectively makes the runtime dependencies
-pure and explicit at build-time, at the cost of introducing an extra indirection.
+The major caveat with Qt applications is that Qt uses a plugin system to load additional modules at runtime.
+In Nixpkgs, we wrap Qt applications to inject environment variables telling Qt where to discover the required plugins and QML modules.
+
+This effectively makes the runtime dependencies pure and explicit at build-time, at the cost of introducing
+an extra indirection.
 
 ## Nix expression for a Qt package (default.nix) {#qt-default-nix}
 
 ```nix
-{ stdenv, lib, qtbase, wrapQtAppsHook }:
+{ stdenv, lib, qt6, wrapQtAppsHook }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation {
   pname = "myapp";
   version = "1.0";
 
-  buildInputs = [ qtbase ];
-  nativeBuildInputs = [ wrapQtAppsHook ];
+  buildInputs = [ qt6.qtbase ];
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ qt6.wrapQtAppsHook ];
 }
 ```
 
-It is important to import Qt modules directly, that is: `qtbase`, `qtdeclarative`, etc. *Do not* import Qt package sets such as `qt5` because the Qt versions of dependencies may not be coherent, causing build and runtime failures.
-
-Additionally all Qt packages must include `wrapQtAppsHook` in `nativeBuildInputs`, or you must explicitly set `dontWrapQtApps`.
-
-`pkgs.callPackage` does not provide injections for `qtbase` or the like.
-Instead you want to either use `pkgs.libsForQt5.callPackage`, or `pkgs.qt6Packages.callPackage`, depending on the Qt version you want to use.
+Any Qt package should include `wrapQtAppsHook` in `nativeBuildInputs`, or explicitly set `dontWrapQtApps` to bypass generating the wrappers.
 
-For example (from [here](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/2f9286912cb215969ece465147badf6d07aa43fe/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix#L30106))
+::: {.note}
+Graphical Linux applications should also include `qtwayland` in `buildInputs`, to ensure the Wayland platform plugin is available.
 
-```nix
-  zeal-qt5 = libsForQt5.callPackage ../data/documentation/zeal { };
-  zeal-qt6 = qt6Packages.callPackage ../data/documentation/zeal { };
-  zeal = zeal-qt5;
-```
+This may become default in the future, see [NixOS/nixpkgs#269674](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/269674).
+:::
 
-## Locating runtime dependencies {#qt-runtime-dependencies}
+## Packages supporting multiple Qt versions {#qt-versions}
 
-Qt applications must be wrapped to find runtime dependencies.
-Include `wrapQtAppsHook` in `nativeBuildInputs`:
+If your package is a library that can be built with multiple Qt versions, you may want to take Qt modules as separate arguments (`qtbase`, `qtdeclarative` etc.), and invoke the package from `pkgs/top-level/qt5-packages.nix` or `pkgs/top-level/qt6-packages.nix` using the respective `callPackage` functions.
 
-```nix
-{ stdenv, wrapQtAppsHook }:
+Applications should generally be built with upstream's preferred Qt version.
 
-stdenv.mkDerivation {
-  # ...
-  nativeBuildInputs = [ wrapQtAppsHook ];
-}
-```
+## Locating additional runtime dependencies {#qt-runtime-dependencies}
 
 Add entries to `qtWrapperArgs` are to modify the wrappers created by
 `wrapQtAppsHook`:
 
 ```nix
-{ stdenv, wrapQtAppsHook }:
+{ stdenv, qt6 }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation {
   # ...
-  nativeBuildInputs = [ wrapQtAppsHook ];
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ qt6.wrapQtAppsHook ];
   qtWrapperArgs = [ ''--prefix PATH : /path/to/bin'' ];
 }
 ```
 
 The entries are passed as arguments to [wrapProgram](#fun-wrapProgram).
 
-Set `dontWrapQtApps` to stop applications from being wrapped automatically.
-Wrap programs manually with `wrapQtApp`, using the syntax of
-[wrapProgram](#fun-wrapProgram):
+If you need more control over the wrapping process, set `dontWrapQtApps` to disable automatic wrapper generation,
+and then create wrappers manually in `fixupPhase`, using `wrapQtApp`, which itself is a small wrapper over [wrapProgram](#fun-wrapProgram):
+
+The `makeWrapper` arguments required for Qt are also exposed in the environment as `$qtWrapperArgs`.
 
 ```nix
 { stdenv, lib, wrapQtAppsHook }: