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a few reasons I think, the QT bindings are split between cxx-qt and qmetaobject-rs . Neither of which are super great IMO, but even if they were, we have UI frame works like slint and egui which are already becoming quite good, slint has a good native look that resembles QT so people wanting that design can use that instead.
It doesn't just resembles QT, it uses QT as backend.
It's worth stating that QT is an optional backend and is only used for native styling, even the pure rust, Native styling still looks close to native. QT is fully optional and is not a dep even for linux apps
Damn, thanks for the tip! So does it support native KDR Styling and all too?
Could in theory Apps like Dolphin be entirely rewritten in Rust, using Slint as Frontend, and still be native in KDE?
From their github:
I'm not that familiar with KDE's styling, but if I remember well it should just be a Qt style, so it should work.
Regarding rewriting Dolphin, I think in theory you could do that, in practice it's probably pretty challenging given the amount of features Dolphin has.