Budgie Desktop To Begin Decoupling From GNOME, Will Use Qt

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Budgie Desktop To Begin Decoupling From GNOME, Will Use Qt

The Solus desktop environment has delivered innovations on a number of fronts, including its work on the Budgie desktop that has a growing following. While Budgie Desktop started off as being based upon GNOME, now the developers are working to decouple from GNOME and begin making use of the Qt tool-kit...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Budgie-From-GNOME-To-Qt

[Mystro256]

Not sure why they don't just target the latest GTK LTS...? Or is there something else I'm missing here?

[Iksf]

Isn't exactly a lot of confidence in GTK anymore, meanwhile Qt goes from strength to strength.

[dungeon]

I always ask myself, why RHEL does not employee this guy? Ikey really likes reinventing things around.

[ikey_solus]

I always ask myself, why RHEL does not employee this guy? Ikey really likes reinventing things around.

I'm reinventing by using an existing, better toolkit? Great logic there.

[dungeon]

I'm reinventing by using an existing, better toolkit? Great logic there.

Redesign is reinvent also, whatever... all that is development.

[ikey_solus]

Redesign is reinvent also, whatever... all that is development.

Evolution is also a thing. Addressing architectural weaknesses, also a thing. Just like off-the-cuff remarks, also a thing.

[ua=42]

Not really to surprised. I seem to remember gnome being against having stable apis for others to use...
If I remember right... isn't that why lxde become lxqt as well? (ditto... https://subsurface-divelog.org/, wireshark, and OpenShot)

[computerquip]

I've tried using Qt a few times but I can't get attached to QML. Also find the C++ entry a little confusing (hard to tell what's being deprecated sometimes as well). I tend to end up using weird libraries like libiup which rely on GTK+. Distribution is also a lot more simple on Windows since it uses native widgets.

That said, on a platform that comes with Qt, distribution isn't a problem. It's also probably relatively easy to use if you're familiar with it already. I've always wondered if it's really that big of a deal though.

[ElectricPrism]

I seem to remember gnome being against having stable apis [...]

That's rediculous, that's like saying mc donalds is against eating food.