Fedora's Qt-Based Media Writer Seeing Improvements

While Fedora Workstation continues to be GNOME/GTK-focused, with macOS and Windows being supported alongside Linux for the Fedora Media Writer, it's understandably written using a Qt5 interface for greater cross-platform compatibility. Jan Grulich of Red Hat has been working to modernize this C++ program since it has been relying on the deprecated Qt Quick Controls 1.
Grulich has been working to move off the Qt Quick Controls 1 code to using Qt Quick Controls 2. In the process, a new QQC2-based Adwaita-Qt theme was developed for better matching the Fedora Workstation desktop.
The Qt Quick Controls 2 port for the Fedora Media Writer is considered finished albeit not 100% complete yet. It's at least in good enough shape that new test builds for Windows / macOS / Linux were released.
More details for those interested in a cross-platform, GUI-driven way for deploying Fedora ISOs to USB can see this blog post on the latest work.
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