Rapid Photo Downloader For Linux Switches From GTK To Qt

[Degra]

With all the Qt/GTK discussion going on,
what's also cross-platform are web frameworks ported to a desktop app. i.e. Electron.
Sure, Angular isn't native to both GTK as well as QT based DEs, but it can look really shiny and is super easy to port. On top of that Typescript is a much more convenient language than both C and C++.

[oleid]

Actually, I prefer writing GTK+ programs over writing Qt; Qt feels like a Java-like library grafted onto C++98/C++03, and forces you to do stuff in a pre-C++11 way. GTKmm is much nicer. I realize, though, that Qt is easier usable in non-Unix environments. I'd love to see more Windows and MacOS work for GTK+.

[stefansaraev]

There's already a GTK+3 application which does basically everything Rapid Photo Downloader does, without all the crap, it's called Nautilus.

ROFL

[starshipeleven]

There's already a GTK+3 application which does basically everything Rapid Photo Downloader does, without all the crap, it's called Nautilus.

Ummm..... no. It's like saying "there is already a wooden piece of furniture that does everything a sofa does, without all the crap, it's called tripod stool"

Seriously, even a naked bash script is better than a file manager (and an operator) at doing what that program does.

[starshipeleven]

Phototonic is stable and have been using qt for a long time.
https://packages.debian.org/buster/phototonic

That link gives an error.

[DeepDayze]

GTK is an ugly abomination.

I dream of a QT-based Gnome... (hey, dreaming never hurted anyone, plus you get free flamebait points.)

GNOME-Qt sounds cool though...and I am sure there's a few GNOME devs out there that might be doing that in secret

Revenge would be sweet if GTK was dumped for Qt tookit!

[aufkrawall]

Many applications still depend on Qt4... Moving between major versions of Qt is not easier.

Usually only old stuff requires Qt4 and usually you can use a git version which already uses Qt5 (e.g. Mumble and VLC).

[microcode]

There's already a GTK+3 application which does basically everything Rapid Photo Downloader does, without all the crap, it's called Nautilus.

[Luke_Wolf]

Many applications still depend on Qt4... Moving between major versions of Qt is not easier.

Just because there's still applications for both GTK and Qt that have yet to update to the newest major version of the toolkit doesn't mean they're the same difficulty in porting. We can play drudge up old and poorly maintained repos all day, that isn't interesting or meaningful to the subject.

The generalized trend of a shift from GTK2->Qt5 but nothing from Qt4->GTK3 is however interesting (including 3 desktops: LxQt, Unity8 (yes it died, but the point is that they tried), and Budgie), particularly when the language involved isn't C++, due to non-C++ being a stronghold for GTK due to C's easier language bindings. Regardless of why you believe it's happening, if we are to go by Phoronix articles then it's certainly going on.

[oleid]

From my point of view, writing c++ code with Qt quickly results in ugly code. GTKmm is so much nicer. But then, it's easier to get nice cross platform apps using Qt. I wish GTK+ would get some love in that area.