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Re:Writing Gnome Apps with Swift by PlutoIsAPlanet on Wednesday March 27, 2024 @06:32PM (#39845401)
But it doesn't use GTK widgets, it just uses GTK to make a window.

That said GTK on Windows and macOS is very meh. You don't choose GTK for making a cross platform app.

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Re:Writing Gnome Apps with Swift by treyd on Wednesday March 27, 2024 @06:36PM (#39845436)
Deluge and Transmission are good cross platform GTK apps.
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Re:Writing Gnome Apps with Swift by dpassens on Wednesday March 27, 2024 @06:44PM (#39845517)
Transmission uses Qt on Windows, either GTK or Qt on Linux, and something AppKit on macOS.
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Re:Writing Gnome Apps with Swift by chungy on Wednesday March 27, 2024 @06:44PM (#39845515)
Transmission has Qt and Win32-native GUI clients as an alternative to its GTK client.

I don't think Transmission is a good example.

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Re:Writing Gnome Apps with Swift by sirwhinesalot on Wednesday March 27, 2024 @06:44PM (#39845509)
Transmission only uses GTK on linux.
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Re:Writing Gnome Apps with Swift by abrouwers on Wednesday March 27, 2024 @06:50PM (#39845565)
There is a Qt and CLI client, too.
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Re:Writing Gnome Apps with Swift by seabrookmx on Wednesday March 27, 2024 @11:11PM (#39847369)
And a web UI! (My preferred method as I run it on my home server)
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Re:Writing Gnome Apps with Swift by IshKebab on Wednesday March 27, 2024 @06:44PM (#39845502)
Evidentially it is possible to make GTK apps work at least somewhat nicely on Windows and Mac since there are a few out there. But it's clearly a ton of work. If you just make a standard GTK app it will be terrible. Most toolkits (e.g. Qt or even Flutter) work much nicer without having to fix them.
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