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Poll: GUI framework for widgets/apps in Wayland (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 11 months ago by andrew0@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Hello everyone! I've been playing around with Wayland for a bit and was hoping to start learning some more about it. For example, I would be interested in making a lock screen, similar to Swaylock, as a toy project.

What GUI toolkit would you use to develop apps on Wayland? I've added a little poll below with some of the popular choices I've seen thrown around. Feel free to add your own suggestions and maybe leave a comment as to why you'd use that!

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[-] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 15 points 11 months ago

I found the easiest to work with to be QT.

[-] Potajito@feddit.ch 13 points 11 months ago

Qt no doubt.

[-] uis@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

Cute

[-] uis@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago

QT + KFramework. SDL2 for games.

[-] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 6 points 11 months ago

Qt by a country mile. Wayland is just another backend, and you won't notice a difference between targeting Wayland and any other platform -- unless you're doing platform specific things in your app (like tray icons, but even then...)

[-] jsh@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 months ago

Electron 😎✨️

[-] ikidd@lemmy.world 17 points 11 months ago

Settle down, Satan.

[-] smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 11 months ago

FIREFOX!

[-] jsh@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago

There used to be a Mozilla alternative, and then it got discontinued. :(

https://mykzilla.org/2017/03/08/positron-discontinued/

[-] onlinepersona@programming.dev 4 points 11 months ago

Slint

[-] pipows@lemmy.today 2 points 11 months ago

That looks very good, thanks for sharing it

[-] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 3 points 11 months ago

I've played around with (only played around with, I haven't done any actual development with either but I've heard they're similar) GTK, QT and Tk (actually tkinter from Python), and QT seems the most intuitive. It just feels right to me, compared to the others.

[-] merthyr1831@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Flutter gang rise up (though technically it's just hijacking a GTK window)

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