A Book about Qt5

Re:A Book about Qt5 by DiseasedBadger on Sunday March 03, 2019 @05:00PM (#19297201)

This (and WebEngine) is why we switched to Gtk.

I'm sure it's a nice book, though.

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Re:A Book about Qt5 by flukus on Sunday March 03, 2019 @06:15PM (#19297544)

Gtk is also increasingly focusing on horrible xml UI's and treating the code API as a second class citizen, at least in documentation.

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Re:A Book about Qt5 by 0815test on Sunday March 03, 2019 @06:17PM (#19297559)

It's nothing new, GLADE has been a thing since the late 1990s.

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Re:A Book about Qt5 by MarvelousWololo on Sunday March 03, 2019 @06:12PM (#19297525)

Could you elaborate here please? I'm trying to learn qt at the moment.

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Re:A Book about Qt5 by toyg on Sunday March 03, 2019 @09:31PM (#19298355)

I believe he means that he switched to GTK because Qt is moving away from traditional desktop widgets (in favour of QML / QtQuick) and he didn’t want to go that way.

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Re:A Book about Qt5 by MarvelousWololo on Monday March 04, 2019 @03:49AM (#19299758)

Hm that's a bummer. It sounds like it's taking the Electron path then? Because that's exactly what I was trying to avoid.

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Re:A Book about Qt5 by marcoms on Monday March 04, 2019 @04:38AM (#19299976)

The code is also compiled to native code, but it's written declaratively. It's not for everyone, but it's not the same as Electron. Even still you have the option to use the traditional imperative API.

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Re:A Book about Qt5 by fernly on Sunday March 03, 2019 @09:45PM (#19298405)

I'm sure one cause is that QtWebEngine is a steaming garbage fire, with a far more limited API than the old WebKit based system, and many more bugs (not that the Qt4 WebKit support was a shining example) -- especially if you attempt to "deploy" (package) an app using it on MacOS.

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