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Rewrite in Qt5 #33

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guoyunhe opened this issue Sep 9, 2017 · 0 comments

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guoyunhe commented Sep 9, 2017

Let's face it. The UI of fontweak is ugly in either KDE or GNOME.

Java Swing is a really old UI toolkit. Though it works, it doesn't provide good native look and feel.

JavaFX is still missing in most Linux distros, so I cannot go for it.

So I choose Qt5, the most popular UI toolkit in Linux world.

However, Qt5 provides two UI toolkit:

the traditional QtWidget, small, fast, native look and feel, but not attractive.
the innovative QtQuick, provides amazing UI but requires more system resources.

I probably go with QtWidget, because the performance of Qt Quick is still not satisfying. I hope it will be super fast and light weight.

Another reason is that, QtQuick doesn't respect Fontconfig settings. The font rendering is strange.

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