Would switching to Qt be a good idea?

[samuel ammonius]

You're right, the examples I provided weren't exactly fair. I've tried both
toolkits in the past and GTK is much more messy than Qt. I know that
rewriting XFCE in Qt will pretty much make an entire new desktop
environment, but I think it will be a much better one.

On Mon, Jul 25, 2022 at 1:55 PM Hudd <haddayn at gmail.com> wrote:

> I believe you misunderstood me.
> I was referring specifically to examples you provided. The only thing
> they demonstrate is that in GTK+ a window must be created explicitly
> whereas in Qt it is created implicitly.
> I am not too familiar with GTK, but I know Qt internals fairly well
> and can say that Qt is kind of messy. So I don't think rewriting XFCE
> in Qt is worth it. That entails a complete rewrite which means we'll
> just get yet another DE.
>
>
> On Sun, 17 Jul 2022 at 03:20, samuel ammonius <sfammonius at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Qt uses the same system as GTK for handling events, only the signal is a
> function pointer instead of a string. What you described was just a silly
> mistake. I understand from experience that silly mistakes can make someone
> dislike a library or even entire programming language, but it doesn't mean
> that that library/language is bad.
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