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Re:KDE onboarding is good now by fooker on Sunday January 04, 2026 @02:53AM (#46485910)
When you say "cannot be written", what do you mean?

You are free to write one, and it works. I have a few internal tools that do not touch QML or the XML ui system, and it still builds just fine with then latest libraries on Arch.

Of course an upstream KDE application might not be written that way, if that's what you are complaining about.

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Re:KDE onboarding is good now by ahartmetz on Sunday January 04, 2026 @03:28AM (#46486091)
It is plain wrong. Most KDE applications are written in QWidgets.
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Re:KDE onboarding is good now by fooker on Sunday January 04, 2026 @03:52AM (#46486210)
Seems like some use XML to compose the UI?
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Re:KDE onboarding is good now by ahartmetz on Sunday January 04, 2026 @04:40AM (#46486468)
Qt Designer .ui files I guess, these are used to generate C++ (QWidgets) code that isn't substantially worse than hand-written. There is also KXmlGui, but that is a rather particular thing IIRC mostly about merging menus from plugins and about permissions.
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