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Moving to QT #116

Closed GoogleCodeExporter closed 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
What do you think about moving all the UI to QT Framework?

Original issue reported on code.google.com by hostfat on 5 Jan 2012 at 5:29

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Why?

I see absolutely no advantages in using Qt. It has nothing that wx does not 
also have, it has only disadvantages: Qt libraries are huge, the portable 
version would probably have twice the size and on Linux there would be endless 
dependency problems since every few months some Qt update makes it completely 
incompatible. Wx on the other hand is using native Widgets on most platforms 
and GTK2 on Linux and this has been stable for many years now.

I might eventually port the entire application to Free Pascal / Lazarus, then 
you can chose a different LCL backend at compile time with a simple compiler 
switch (native or GTK2 would be default, Qt would be optional) but until then I 
won't attempt to fix what was never broken.

Original comment by prof7...@gmail.com on 5 Jan 2012 at 10:06