Post AV3rM8ExMeJJpPKvgW by tirifto@miniwa.moe
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 (DIR) Post #AV3rM8ExMeJJpPKvgW by tirifto@miniwa.moe
       2023-04-26T13:59:39.410138Z
       
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       There seems to be a lack of a friendly, robust and versatile GUI toolkit on Lignux. You know, something that looks pretty, is reasonably stable yet actively maintained, has a welcoming community, is well-documented and easy to get started with, and can adapt to your needs. Something I could feel proud, happy and comfortable using as my solution for making graphical apps!• Qt seems pretty nice, but also feels pretty confusing to me. I don’t exactly love the looks, and the good bindings seem limited to languages I really wouldn’t enjoy using.• GTK seems pretty nice and more approachable. I can find plenty of bindings and I really liked the look of GTK3. But it’s maintained by GNOME, which seems pretty toxic, and I don’t think I like the recent design direction either.• EFL seems pretty nice and looks spiffy, but the community feels very sporadic, the toolkit has never felt polished to me, and overall I find it hard to read the project or its documentation.• GNUstep is being actively maintained and developed, but you couldn’t tell because almost anything that uses it feels like it hasn’t been for a decade or two. Other software doesn’t seem to play very nice with it, and it’s for Objective-C (of which I like the objective part and fear the C).• Tk has plenty of bindings, but feels a tad alien, is supposedly basic, and working it with seems less than straightforward (though I haven’t tried in earnest).• Morphic and Swing seem cool if you’re deep into Smalltalk and Java, respectively, which I’m not.• There’s a froth of new toolkits written in Rust™, all seemingly dedicated to being entirely memory-safe and entirely exploitable under pushover licences.• Electron.So yeah, if I really really want to write a graphical app, I can, in a number of different ways. But when the choice comes down to this, I suddenly don’t really really want to…#lang_en #GNU #GUI #Lignux #Linux #programming #software #technology
       
 (DIR) Post #AV3rMkLJhRye08bXsG by tennoseremel@lor.sh
       2023-04-26T14:28:17Z
       
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       @tirifto It's either Qt or text-based interfaces, which are nice too ☕