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I've been getting more and more interested with qt development. As a linux user, I'm exhausted from the bloat and cycle stealing electron apps ( with VSCode bei

I've been getting more and more interested with qt development. As a linux user, I'm exhausted from the bloat and cycle stealing electron apps ( with VSCode being a notable exception to this rule). But more recently, the idea of writing one app in Qt, running it everywhere between Android, a Librem 5, and desktop platfoms is really exciting.

mehhh 7y ago
That was the main idea behind Pyre-Qt, but dynamic media resizing is not well supported in Qt unless you pull in a web view (at which point you've recreated Electron). https://pyre.chat https://pyre.chat One fork of Pyre does this using a web view, and it fixes the media scaling bug, but what is the advantage over Signal Desktop at that point (besides being a tray icon & having native integration)? Edit: Capitalization
- panpanna 7y ago
  What about qml?
Kenji 7y ago
Why not GTK? You have even less bloat than in qt.
- wtracy 7y ago
  GTk has zero out of the box support for mobile.
  - Kenji 7y ago
    That's obviously nonsense. Purism's Librem 5 phone features a full GTK mobile GUI.
Gibbon1 7y ago
When I was looking for a new editor, out and out excluded anything that didn't use either Qt or WxWidgets. What I saw was both frameworks allow you to at least support Linux, BSD, OSX, and Windows without too much hassle. It's been a while but my impression was Qt applications look like Qt applications and WxWidgets look more like native-ish applications. (But could probably am wrong).