Newbie question about Qt apps in Fedora 33, 34, etc.

[David]

I just installed mediawriter and noticed it is a Qt app.    What
other popular apps are Qt in Fedora ?

I just read a year old article about that topic, about the adwaita-qt
thing, trying to make Qt apps look like gtk apps.

As of September 2020 and beyond, what is the general trend
about this topic ?     Gnome apps have come along way right ?
Which ones are still better or preferred by Qt / KDE lovers ?
Krita ?    Kdenlive ?

Are Qt5 apps lighter ? snappier ? or easier to code than the gtk 3
counterparts ?

David Locklear

[Tom Horsley]

On Thu, 17 Sep 2020 10:21:43 -0500
David wrote:
> Are Qt5 apps lighter ? snappier ? or easier to code than the gtk 3
> counterparts ?

I believe KDE apps are mostly Qt (or a Qt variant with KDE bits wedged in).
I certainly find it easier to code Qt than gtk. The gtk apps I've
debugged from time to time (claws-mail is one example) seem to require
vastly more work from the programmer to do things which seem like
they ought to be easier in a GUI toolkit.

Qt has its own challenges mind you (mostly finding that you need
to turn your brain inside out to understand how Qt wants you to
do things as opposed to how you think it should obviously work :-).

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Thu, 2020-09-17 at 10:21 -0500, David wrote:
> I just installed mediawriter and noticed it is a Qt app.    What
> other popular apps are Qt in Fedora ?
>
> I just read a year old article about that topic, about the adwaita-qt
> thing, trying to make Qt apps look like gtk apps.
>
> As of September 2020 and beyond, what is the general trend
> about this topic ?     Gnome apps have come along way right ?
> Which ones are still better or preferred by Qt / KDE lovers ?
> Krita ?    Kdenlive ?
>
> Are Qt5 apps lighter ? snappier ? or easier to code than the gtk 3
> counterparts ?

You should probably subscribe to the Fedora KDE list. See:

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[David]

Thank you.

Let me re-phrase that question.      My install is Gnome, ( soon to be
Gnome 40, LOL ! )     I do not
yet know which of my apps besides mediawriter are Qt5.     I was reading
another article that the trend
is to move towards flatpak, and that would encourage more Qt5 apps being
used in Gnome.    On the other
hand, I read another article that Qt's financial strategy is getting some
Linux users to get the knickers in a
wad.

I meant for Gnome users, what Qt5 apps would you recommend, instead of a
gtk counterpart.

GIMP does not really have a Qt5 counterpart.    Right ?

I see all the CAD software is all Qt.

I do not see any Qt games that I would use, except 2048-qt

Are the notepad apps better in Qt ?

Cheers,