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What Qt needs is more Electron. Please show me one major new desktop application written today which uses Qt. Major meaning used by millions of people.

jbarberu 7y ago
Autodesk Maya 2019 is one pretty good example off the top of my head
- notathing 7y ago
  Maya uses Qt since 2010, before Electron existed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zWlwdr7exo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zWlwdr7exo
  - leadingthenet 7y ago
    > before Electron existed. And what an amazing time that was.
blub 7y ago
Popular doesn't mean good. In fact Electron is born out of the idea that developer productivity and comfort is everything and performance is a secondary concern. These apps seem to be popular with device manufacturers. I have the displeasure of using two such apps, both have crap usability and custom UIs that don't make any effort to integrate with the platform. One of them doesn't even respond to the quit shortcut.
- notathing 7y ago
  > These apps seem to be popular with device manufacturers. All apps written by device manufacturers are crap, regardless of what they are written in. It has nothing to do with Electron, just with the fact that they only know how to do hardware, and are clueless on the software side.
  - blub 7y ago
    The apps function correctly, it's the UI that is the problem. It's modern looking, but obviously not native and doesn't respect some platform idioms or shortcuts, so all in all it's a subpar experience. This is completely related to Electron and would not happen for a native app, where the framework takes care of the look & feel and integration. If every app were written like this, we'd end up with scores of slightly inconsistent apps, all of them trying to be unique and cool and resulting in a mediocre platform. i.e. Windows.
deathtrader666 7y ago
WebOS, Qlik and Tableau are built using Qt. https://resources.qt.io/customer-stories-all https://resources.qt.io/customer-stories-all
sgt 7y ago
Also, Tesla's dashboard user interface is apparently built on Qt. I honestly would not feel safe in a car built around Electron, even if it's just the UI.
billconan 7y ago
krita, vlc,
- FraKtus 7y ago
  VLC is not using Qt, at least not on macOS, I just checked.
  - billconan 7y ago
    https://wiki.videolan.org/Qt_Interface/ https://wiki.videolan.org/Qt_Interface/
ekc 7y ago
Blizzard launcher.
- nurettin 7y ago
  Isn't that just a website running locally under CEF?
  - ekc 7y ago
    I don't believe so, unless it's changed recently.
curt15 7y ago
The Linux version of Mathematica
gwillz 7y ago
This is bait. But easily, Skype.
ACE_Recliner 7y ago
Telegram for desktop. Easily the most usable "modern" (read: not IRC) instant messaging client available today in terms of features, responsiveness, and portability.
FraKtus 7y ago
Roblox Studio is using Qt 5; I just tried that yesterday. As too often for a Qt application, the interface looks alien on macOS.

jbarberu 7y ago

Autodesk Maya 2019 is one pretty good example off the top of my head

notathing 7y ago
Maya uses Qt since 2010, before Electron existed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zWlwdr7exo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zWlwdr7exo
- leadingthenet 7y ago
  > before Electron existed. And what an amazing time that was.

blub 7y ago

Popular doesn't mean good. In fact Electron is born out of the idea that developer productivity and comfort is everything and performance is a secondary concern. These apps seem to be popular with device manufacturers. I have the displeasure of using two such apps, both have crap usability and custom UIs that don't make any effort to integrate with the platform. One of them doesn't even respond to the quit shortcut.

notathing 7y ago
> These apps seem to be popular with device manufacturers. All apps written by device manufacturers are crap, regardless of what they are written in. It has nothing to do with Electron, just with the fact that they only know how to do hardware, and are clueless on the software side.
- blub 7y ago
  The apps function correctly, it's the UI that is the problem. It's modern looking, but obviously not native and doesn't respect some platform idioms or shortcuts, so all in all it's a subpar experience. This is completely related to Electron and would not happen for a native app, where the framework takes care of the look & feel and integration. If every app were written like this, we'd end up with scores of slightly inconsistent apps, all of them trying to be unique and cool and resulting in a mediocre platform. i.e. Windows.

deathtrader666 7y ago

WebOS, Qlik and Tableau are built using Qt. https://resources.qt.io/customer-stories-all https://resources.qt.io/customer-stories-all

sgt 7y ago

Also, Tesla's dashboard user interface is apparently built on Qt. I honestly would not feel safe in a car built around Electron, even if it's just the UI.

billconan 7y ago

krita, vlc,

FraKtus 7y ago
VLC is not using Qt, at least not on macOS, I just checked.
- billconan 7y ago
  https://wiki.videolan.org/Qt_Interface/ https://wiki.videolan.org/Qt_Interface/

ekc 7y ago

Blizzard launcher.

nurettin 7y ago
Isn't that just a website running locally under CEF?
- ekc 7y ago
  I don't believe so, unless it's changed recently.

curt15 7y ago

The Linux version of Mathematica

gwillz 7y ago

This is bait. But easily, Skype.

ACE_Recliner 7y ago

Telegram for desktop. Easily the most usable "modern" (read: not IRC) instant messaging client available today in terms of features, responsiveness, and portability.

FraKtus 7y ago

Roblox Studio is using Qt 5; I just tried that yesterday. As too often for a Qt application, the interface looks alien on macOS.