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Why are there so many (rust) GTK apps and so little Qt ones? (feddit.de)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I always see new GTK apps popup on Flathub. I dont really care and think GTK looks fancy, although CSD suck a bit and they waste space and often functionality.

But they work, are solid, and do what they should.

Qt on the other hand may seem more like a complex job to code with. I dont actually think so, but I heard especially writing rust with GTK is way better than with Qt.

I like KDE a lot, and even though I am excited for Cosmic I think Qt is the better toolkit for many things and a lot of time. But Dolphin seems to suffer from memory safety issues all the time, as well as other projects.

Do you have experience in rust, using GTK or Qt? How do they compare?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Damn, thanks for the tip! So does it support native KDR Styling and all too?

Could in theory Apps like Dolphin be entirely rewritten in Rust, using Slint as Frontend, and still be native in KDE?

[–] Giooschi 3 points 11 months ago

From their github:

NOTE: When Qt is installed on the system, the native style uses Qt's QStyle to achieve native looking widgets.

I'm not that familiar with KDE's styling, but if I remember well it should just be a Qt style, so it should work.

Regarding rewriting Dolphin, I think in theory you could do that, in practice it's probably pretty challenging given the amount of features Dolphin has.