On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 11:28 AM, PCMan <[email protected]> wrote:
> No, LXDE will NOT use Qt. Don’t panic!
> There is NO plan to replace the original Gtk+ version.
> Recently I really felt frustrated when working with the problematic
> Gtk3. :-( So I took a break and played with Qt a bit to test the
> portability and design of libfm core.
>
> It’s just one of my side projects and was an experiment to test how
> good libfm and Qt are. Since the core library of PCManFM, libfm, is
> carefully separated from its Gtk+ UI code, theoratically it can be
> ported to other GUI toolkits. To give it a test, I played with Qt
> recently. The result is quite satisfactory and impressive. I must
> admit that working with Qt is quite pleasant.
>
> Everybody loves screenshots so here is one.
> http://blog.lxde.org/?p=966
>
> At first glance, this looks like the original GTK+ version very much.
> Because I choose “Cleanlook” Qt style, it highly resembles Gtk+
> “Clearlooks” theme. Besides, I load the “elementary” icon theme.
> Though it matches the looks and feels of typical Gnome/Gtk+ programs,
> this is an 100% pure Qt program.
>
> The most interesting and unique part of the PCManFM Qt port are:
>
> No KDE dependency. Really, it’s a lightweight pure Qt4 program.
> Almost as fast as the original Gtk+ version. I have not taken any time
> to do optimization yet. It’s possible to make it faster after
> optimization.
> Uses Libfm + glib/gio, and supports gvfs. So you can mount remote
> filesystems.
> Source code is clean and short, written in C++.
> Desktop independent, do not depend on any specific desktop environment
> (although it uses glib/gio/gvfs, it does not require Gnome)
> Built with cmake. No more autotools.
> Later, when the APIs becomes stable, I’ll make it two parts, PCManFM
> main binary and libfm-Qt, which can be used in other pure Qt programs.
> For decades, people from the Gnome/Gtk+ camp and the KDE/Qt camp don’t
> work each other sometimes. Each of them likes to reinvent the wheel
> and create functionally equivalent programs with different toolkits.
> The fact is, technology from both camps can be mixed very well.
> Qt-based UI sit on top of low level platform APIs from Gnome stack is
> another good option.
>
> PCManFM Qt, when finished, will be a perfect mix of Gnome libraries +
> Qt-based UI. I think it’s a good news for who like Qt but don’t want
> to install KDE.
>
> The source code is available here:
> git clone git://pcmanfm.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/pcmanfm/libfm-qt
>
> It’s still a work in progress and many parts don’t work yet.
> If you’re a Qt developer and is interested in helping the development,
> feel free to contact me.
Fantastic! Somebody should let the RazorQT project know. They might be
interested.
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