Which GUI framework?
Qt, obviously.
>>106715623Why? What makes Qt good?
If you want your application to be supported for longer than five years, Qt.If you want to make an app that you drop after a month, gtk.
>>106715636it's cross platform and you can target embedded and web assembly. in other words, one framework for every device/platform in the world, and it's completely free if you open source the client code and want to make money.
I never paid for a Qt license.
>>106715671did i mention that you can use it to even make android and ios apps? lol
>>106715608Xaw, Tk, FLTK, FOX, GTK 2
>>106715636Better for cross-plattform. Providing a Windows build is no issue and it will integrate into any Desktop Environment.Gtk >3 looks out of place everywhere except Gnome, if you want to support Windows as well, expect 7 years of testing (thats how long it took for gimp).And gtk <=3 is deprecated. And the same will happen for whatever version you choose.At some point you will have to spend a huge amount of time rewriting for the newest faggot version that you don't even like and that removed features.Meanwhile in the Qt world, big updates are less of a problem. Qt5 to Qt6 isn't much of an issue and they provide compat packages, if you are lazy.Some projects do struggle to update, like Krita, because they use some super special thing, but it wont be a 7 year endeavour of pain, like it was for gimp with gtk.
>>106715608GTK cause QT is shit for theming/ricing even though GTK is flawed
>>106715734how do i rice gtk 4 to get server side decorations back?
>>106715743You can't, use >>106715709
>>106715608Qt is probably the only serious maintained gui framework on Linux these days.
Qt is incomprehensibly jewish, it makes you create an account and download a bloated installer just to make a window that says "hello". I'm sticking with Win32.
You can compile a Qt application for Windows and don't have to test it a lot, you can assume that it will work.I don't want to test my stuff on every possible platform. I just give them an exe with a disclaimer that i don't test on Windows and that it is their responsibility to report when its broken.>b-but if you are a corporation, you have a whole department for testing on all platforms anyway, hurr durr, you have to run your project like a corpo!I am not a corpo.>>106715709Tk is unironically decent, i enjoyed playing with it.
>>106716039weird, i didn't have to create an account or download a bloated installed>win32too many ABI changes
>>106716039>it makes you create an account and download a bloated installer just to make a windowIn Ubuntu this is just sudo apt install qt6-base-dev
sudo apt install qt6-base-dev
>>106716039>it makes you create an accountIt does on Windows, but you can get around that by compiling QT yourself which isn't hard to do
>>106716039build it yourself https://decovar.dev/blog/2020/12/04/qt-without-installer/
>>106715608GTK is hot dogshit so use Qt if that's the only other thing you are considering.
>>106715720>Gtk >3 looks out of place everywhere except Gnomegimp doesn't look out of place on windows or macOS
>>106715608They all fucking suck. After you've used a framework that follows the "view as function of state" pattern, you can't go back to imperative fuckery. It's so obvious it's completely unsuitable for UI.Unfortunately, all the "view as function of state" frameworks are either way too immature or web based shit that takes 400MB of RAM just idling in the background, displaying a static window.That's why I hate UI programming. All choices are wrong.
>>106715671Does it trigger the anti-js crowd?
>>106716039Use this.https://github.com/miurahr/aqtinstall
>>106715608packaging qt sucks keep that in mind
>>106715608gtk is a microsoft project meant to sabotage linux
>>106717027Why would it? It's completely native cross-platform without JSI hear QML is JS-like but the programs themselves are C++ and Python
>>106717747No, it's super easy. Must be a skill issue.
use EFL
>>106715608Qt.
>>106715636>What makes Qt good?It's not GTK.
>>106717013>"view as function of state" ROOOLS!!!alas, it only works in relatively simple cases (though it's great in those)it gets messier once you have complex components or transitions between views>all the "view as function of state" frameworks are either way too immature or web based shitEh, Tk likes to work in that mode and is neither immature nor web-based (except for the weirdos who have ported it to work like that, and they're a minority of a minority)
>>106716065>Tk is unironically decent, i enjoyed playing with it.Thank you. I think I'll try to keep maintaining it for some more years.
>>106715720>Gtk >3 looks out of place everywhere except GnomeI hate it so god damn much. Normal apps look functional but every single GTK3 app looks like the most chinese iPad ripoff ever conceived.
>>106720098Gtk3 is good. He said Gtk>3, aka gtk4
>>106715608flutter
