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Qt 4 or 5? I had difficulty getting even "hello world" running in 5, and the size of deploy binaries (~16M) was scary. Maybe that doesn't matter so much if it'l
by raphlinus 11y ago
Qt 4 or 5? I had difficulty getting even "hello world" running in 5, and the size of deploy binaries (~16M) was scary. Maybe that doesn't matter so much if it'll primarily be using system libraries.
- oblio 11y agoAt this point? 5, definitely :)
- dman 11y agoI use Qt4 and QWidgets - its by far the most pleasant desktop UI development toolkit Ive used. (Ive used qt, gtk, wx, win32 with gdi/gdi+ and a bit of swing).
- lmm 11y agoWhat went wrong with 5? And yeah use dynamic linking, that's what it's for.
- IshKebab 10y agoThe binary size is mostly due to improved unicode support (libicu) and QML.
- raphlinus 10y agoThe specific thing that went wrong was trying to use the homebrew version. 4 just worked out of the box, no hassle. I do of course have access to a Linux machine, but it'd be convenient to do development on my Mac as well. I'm willing to give it another shot but need to be convinced it's worthwhile.
- lmm 10y agoWell, I think Qt looks really pretty and generally prefer Qt apps over GTK versions. I find it nicer as a programmer too. I've known projects to migrate from GTK to Qt (in particular Rosegarden, which used to have a great blog post about how much nicer it made everything that I sadly can't find now) - looking at https://www.wikivs.com/wiki/GTK_vs_Qt https://www.wikivs.com/wiki/GTK_vs_Qt there's a big list of projects that have switched from GTK to Qt and none that have gone in the other direction.