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These are just packaging issues, typically (but not only) on Linux. Dedicated developers know what to do to avoid all of that. As for the style - again, depend

by toyg 4y ago

These are just packaging issues, typically (but not only) on Linux. Dedicated developers know what to do to avoid all of that. As for the style - again, depending on developer choices, they can actually be the most consistent with the platform they run on. Unfortunately that was a selling point for the original QtWidgets more than QML - QML does things "the web way" and just doesn't give a crap about desktop styles. Things like "lack of padding" sound funny to me, because on that side Qt is definitely superior to the overpadded monstrosities of GTK or web-like frameworks, who waste screen real estate for fun. Qt simply uses desktop conventions, which are "just right" in QtWidgets with minimal attention to layouts. > I tire of seeing the word Qt everywhere Now you're just being silly. Everyone does it - Apple with NS etc.

regularfry 4y ago
> These are just packaging issues, typically (but not only) on Linux. Dedicated developers know what to do to avoid all of that. Isn't that the point? It's easy for a packager to get into a situation that gives the end user a shitty experience. You shouldn't need to be a "dedicated developer" just to be a user, and making the packaging situation straightforward for the distributor is firmly in framework provider's ballpark. This isn't something Qt should be allowed to shrug off, it's exactly the job they should be doing. >> Then once you finally get it to work, be prepared to spend time on Stack Overflow researching arcane QT_ environment variables to fix things like display scaling and added additional library paths at runtime. Just to add my n=1 anecdata here, FreeCAD (a QT app) consistently gets scaling wrong, on all the platforms I regularly use it on (Windows, MacOS, Linux). It's just... not good, to the extent that I actively avoid plugging external monitors in rather than screw with it once I've got a tolerable setup.

by toyg 4y ago

regularfry 4y ago

> These are just packaging issues, typically (but not only) on Linux. Dedicated developers know what to do to avoid all of that. Isn't that the point? It's easy for a packager to get into a situation that gives the end user a shitty experience. You shouldn't need to be a "dedicated developer" just to be a user, and making the packaging situation straightforward for the distributor is firmly in framework provider's ballpark. This isn't something Qt should be allowed to shrug off, it's exactly the job they should be doing. >> Then once you finally get it to work, be prepared to spend time on Stack Overflow researching arcane QT_ environment variables to fix things like display scaling and added additional library paths at runtime. Just to add my n=1 anecdata here, FreeCAD (a QT app) consistently gets scaling wrong, on all the platforms I regularly use it on (Windows, MacOS, Linux). It's just... not good, to the extent that I actively avoid plugging external monitors in rather than screw with it once I've got a tolerable setup.