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@wth @Spyros We need one universal graphical tool kit that works everywhere!

GTK: Hi, I heard you’re looking fo—
Me: NOT YOU

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Electron:

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GTFO Electron, I hate you :P

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@JackbyDev oh damn wish I’d thought of that

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Electron never forgot you :(

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How about Qt

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@LaggyKar I’ve never used it

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Every desktop app that’s available on multiple platforms is basically written in it.

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ROFL.

True on desktop OSs. I did quite a bit of commercial dev on GTK many years ago, but I always found the look and feel on Mac (esp) and windows quite klunky. I hear that quite a bit of work has been done on native theming, so perhaps my impressions are out of date. Having said that - GTK wasn’t bad to work with. I also did a project in WxWidgets, but again desktop only. It was not too bad for simple apps.

For the current app - first release target was iOS, then Mac, Android, Windows then Linux. So GTK was out since its not mobile friendly (I have heard you can do something on Android, but iOS is out).

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GTK has improved a lot, but native theming isn’t the area. It has very powerful theming but I don’t think a macOS theme exists.

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Thanks. I’m very out of date with it.

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@wth I have worked with GTK3 myself, and once I got used to its quirks, actually found it quite nice to work with. I was writing my code in Python too, which added some extra challenge, but the GObject introspection took a lot of the pain out of interoperating with what’s basically a C library.

However, I’m aware that GTK has a bit of a reputation. The look and feel is great on Linux desktops that use it natively, but I do remember it looking pretty ugly cross-platform.

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(tagging @programming for Mastodon→Lemmy federation – ignore this comment)

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