Would switching to Qt be a good idea?

[Mark Ballard]

I for one would welcome any effort to stop the over-simplification of xfce.
Operating Gnome apps is like trying to knit while wearing mittens, or type
with club fists.


On Fri, 8 Jul 2022 at 12:45, samuel ammonius <sfammonius at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi
>
> If you fork the project, do the work, attract enough developers to
>> maintain it, and eventually prove it's better, then it will become a
>> de-facto better project. Maintainers are not stubborn gatekeepers, they try
>> to do what's best for the project, but they rarely commit to accepting code
>> that has not been written yet.
>>
>
> Thanks for informing me about all of that. I'll try to start with smaller
> things like mousepad and the screenshooter, and move on to things like
> thunar and the panel when I'm familiar with the process of converting
> GTK/GLib to Qt.
>
> IMHO, time would be better invested in a Wayland compositor, but that's
>> another huge task.
>>
>
> What would a wayland compositor do?
>
> On Fri, Jul 8, 2022 at 4:27 AM Olivier Fourdan <fourdan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> On Thu, 7 Jul 2022 at 19:06, samuel ammonius <sfammonius at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I posted a similar question on the XFCE forum, where a moderator told me
>>> I should go here. The forum post is here
>>> <https://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?pid=67869#p67869>.
>>>
>>> The reason I was suggesting this is because GTK4 removed menus
>>> completely, because they were too "X11-centric". I think this is just an
>>> excuse to force people to use their designs, and XFCE's adoption of
>>> client-side decoration is proof that it's working. I'm not complaining
>>> about CSD in particular, but I'm trying to say that over the years, similar
>>> situations will arise and GTK will start to become a larger burden with
>>> every version that gets released.
>>>
>> I know that switching to Qt isn't something little. What I'm asking is,
>>> if I can fork all of XFCE's gui and make it use Qt, is it possible at all
>>> that it might get merged?
>>>
>>
>> This is a theoretical question impossible to answer without anything
>> tangible to evaluate.
>>
>> This is all open source, so eventually, the best ideas win.
>>
>> If you fork the project, do the work, attract enough developers to
>> maintain it, and eventually prove it's better, then it will become a
>> de-facto better project. Maintainers are not stubborn gatekeepers, they try
>> to do what's best for the project, but they rarely commit to accepting code
>> that has not been written yet.
>>
>>
>>> It won't take as long as it might sound because I've made both GTK and
>>> Qt applications and Qt is at least twice as easy to deal with.
>>>
>>
>> So if you believe it's a good idea, have the will, time and energy to do
>> it, then why not?
>>
>> IMHO, time would be better invested in a Wayland compositor, but that's
>> another huge task.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Olivier
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