Would switching to Qt be a good idea?

[samuel ammonius]

>
> IMHO, time would be better invested in a Wayland compositor, but that's
> another huge task.
>

Sorry to only mention this now, but Qt actually comes with built-in Wayland
support and I'm planning on making a simple Qt port of xfwm4. I was just
revisiting this thread and thought to mention this.

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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