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▲ fooker 4 days ago

> The entire experience would not be so bad if I could write my app entirely in Cpp.

You can.

Qt + KDE libraries are really nice.

▲kdefanqth8er 4 days ago | parent [-]

You can’t, you must use Qml.

You used to be able to with QtWidgets but a modern KDE app cannot be written with QtWidgets. And QtWidgets are in life support.

▲fooker 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

When you say "cannot be written", what do you mean?

You are free to write one, and it works. I have a few internal tools that do not touch QML or the XML ui system, and it still builds just fine with then latest libraries on Arch.

Of course an upstream KDE application might not be written that way, if that's what you are complaining about.

▲ahartmetz 4 days ago | parent [-]

It is plain wrong. Most KDE applications are written in QWidgets.

▲fooker 4 days ago | parent [-]

Seems like some use XML to compose the UI?

▲ahartmetz 4 days ago | parent [-]

Qt Designer .ui files I guess, these are used to generate C++ (QWidgets) code that isn't substantially worse than hand-written. There is also KXmlGui, but that is a rather particular thing IIRC mostly about merging menus from plugins and about permissions.

▲gmueckl 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

What's the source for this?

Edit: just browsed some of the docs for current KDE libs and I see a lot of QWidget-derived custom widgets in there. I don't see how this stuff couldn't be used in a pure C++ codebase.

▲kdefanqth8er 4 days ago | parent [-]

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