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Qt is pretty reasonable.
by ohazi 6y ago
Qt is pretty reasonable.
- FractalHQ 6y agoEvery qt app I’ve ever used is ugly, slow to add features, and has lackluster UX. What’s a good one?
- cpach 6y agoHonestly, the best applications tend to be native applications. That’s my experience at least.
- _448 6y agoWxWidgets uses a different approach to Qt. Qt emulates, where as Wx delegates :) i.e. Qt tries to emulate the native look-and-feel, where as Wx uses the native APIs of the platform for rendering GUI. So if you want true native the go with WxWidgets. This is one reason why Qt is available on mobile but Wx has struggled.
- ohazi 6y agoOff the top of my head: VLC, Wireshark, MuseScore. None of the properties you mention are inherent to Qt... getting them right takes a lot of work regardless of which GUI toolkit you use. If thats the sort of thing you're looking for, the Spotify desktop app also uses Qt on Linux (they use native toolkits on Win/Mac).
- mtberatwork 6y agoIsn't Spotify Desktop an Electron app?
- ohazi 6y agoHm, I may have been wrong. [1] suggest that it was a Qt app on Linux at one point, but this source is old, and more recent ones suggest that they now use Electron. I don't actually use Spotify, so I'm not sure - perhaps not the best example. The point I wanted to make was that you can use Qt to make "sexy" modern feeling apps, if that's a priority for you, it just takes work. Personally, I think something like VLC is a better example of a high quality app, even if the UI isn't flashy, but I guess people today want shiny stuff more than good reliable stuff. [1] https://blogs.windows.com/devices/2011/03/15/10-qt-use-cases-you-didnt-know/ https://blogs.windows.com/devices/2011/03/15/10-qt-use-cases...