Zrythm Digital Audio Workstation Abandoning GTK For Qt6

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Zrythm Digital Audio Workstation Abandoning GTK For Qt6

Zrythm is an interesting open-source digital audio workstation (DAW) software package. It's been making use of the GTK toolkit but now the developers have decided to switch to Qt6 instead...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Zrythm-Abandoning-GTK-For-Qt

[access]

Makes sense for a C++ project with loads of custom widgets to use a C++ UI toolkit.

[mxan]

Another L for GTK

Makes sense for a C++ project with loads of custom widgets to use a C++ UI toolkit.

GTK has had C++ bindings for a long time and many major C++ projects use GTK - Inkscape, LibreOffice, Firefox/Thunderbird, RawTherapee.... It's not about the project being in C++, it's about GTK, or more realistically its developers, becoming shittier as time goes on

[anarki2]

Another L for GTK



GTK has had C++ bindings for a long time and many major C++ projects use GTK - Inkscape, LibreOffice, Firefox/Thunderbird, RawTherapee.... It's not about the project being in C++, it's about GTK, or more realistically its developers, becoming shittier as time goes on

firefox uses XUL for the most part, GTK is only for like the main window. And yes, the libreoffice ui also sucks hard.

[d3coder]

Another L for GTK



GTK has had C++ bindings for a long time and many major C++ projects use GTK - Inkscape, LibreOffice, Firefox/Thunderbird, RawTherapee.... It's not about the project being in C++, it's about GTK, or more realistically its developers, becoming shittier as time goes on

Firefox doesn't really use GTK. They use their own toolkit and use gtk for some system integration on linux.
Libreoffice does not use GTK at all. They offer optional integration with GTK or Qt or KDE.
No idea about other software.

[curfew]

Another L for GTK
GTK has had C++ bindings for a long time and many major C++ projects use GTK - Inkscape, LibreOffice, Firefox/Thunderbird, RawTherapee.... It's not about the project being in C++, it's about GTK, or more realistically its developers, becoming shittier as time goes on

Bindings merely allow borrowing code written in another language, but then you end up writing poor code that tries to work around the limitations of said bindings instead of writing "pure" code that makes the best use of all the tools.

That being said, Qt also doesn't fully utilize C++, but at least it's less shitty.

[theuserbl]

Now it will be possible to compare the old GTK+-program with the new Qt6-program. 🙂
Nice to see, that such a big program switching from one toolkit to an other. So the comparision will be better.

The most programs, which existing with both toolkits as backend using wxWidgets. But there are not so much programs supporting direct both toolkits.

[cb88]

Another L for GTK



GTK has had C++ bindings for a long time and many major C++ projects use GTK - Inkscape, LibreOffice, Firefox/Thunderbird, RawTherapee.... It's not about the project being in C++, it's about GTK, or more realistically its developers, becoming shittier as time goes on

To be completely fair its probably both. Due to sun cost you might stick around as long as the toolkit worked ok... even if you were passing data around void all over the place in C.

[carewolf]

firefox uses XUL for the most part, GTK is only for like the main window. And yes, the libreoffice ui also sucks hard.

Like Firefox, Libreoffice has its own widget framework that sucks hard

[carewolf]

Bindings merely allow borrowing code written in another language, but then you end up writing poor code that tries to work around the limitations of said bindings instead of writing "pure" code that makes the best use of all the tools.

That being said, Qt also doesn't fully utilize C++, but at least it's less shitty.

C++ doesnt fully utilize Qt.