Dec 11, 2009 · Of course, KDE is very popular as well. Nokia is heavily pushing Qt in the mobile space -- their Maemo OS, used on the new N900 for example, is soon to switch to Qt as the default toolkit (currently it is GTK.) I believe Qt will also soon become the default toolkit for Symbian OS. I have not used Qt Creator, but I have heard many good things ...

Aug 18, 2018 · Qt and GTK set themes independently (via, e.g., qtconfig or gtk-chtheme) but this is harmonized by some desktop environments. GNU/Linux tends to be more GTK oriented than Qt in the sense that the former is more commonly used, so you may want to prefer it when given the choice; an exception would be under KDE, which uses Qt for its own ...

Nov 26, 2009 · After some time it was decided to re-write GTK and make it Object Orientated (GTK+). Also around this time, due to the potential licensing issues with QT, Gnome was started and decided to use the GTK+ library. Now if you look at the QT Design and the GTK Design entries on Wikipedia, you can start seeing some of the differences between the systems.

Nov 13, 2010 · Qt's graphics view and scene system is awesome, GTK only has low level Cairo. Writing custom widgets seems easier with Qt, probably because of the OO design. I don't know which API has more "advanced" widgets, but the basic ones are probably enough for most applications with a little bit of customization.

GTK uses a theming API to fake the look and feel of the platform (custom theming engine on GTK2, CSS-based engine on GTK3). Qt uses styles to fake the look and feel of the platform. wxWidgets API is quite ugly from my own experience, because it had too many method just available on one or the other platform making stuff non-portable unless you ...

May 11, 2010 · I've used GTK and Qt in C++ and also PyGTK and PyQt in Python quite extensively. Qt beats GTK hands down - its a much more flexible, modern and clean API. GTK is also lacking some features that are important to me. From a …

Jan 21, 2015 · I would prefer Qt. As today, Qt is Open-source and free under more permissive, LGPL license. Qt is better ported for Windows and looks more native than GTK. Gimp on windows, for example, looks very strange, because most of its dialogs are not Windows dialogs. Qt can use native Window dialogs like Open/Save which makes it feel better as a framework.

Mar 23, 2018 · So potentially on my system I have: GTK, GTK+, GTK2, GTK+ 2, GTK3, GTK+ 3, QT 5 So first of all I am unsure if for example GTK2 and GTK+ 2 are the same thing, so of the 7 toolkits listed are these all unique, if not, which ones can I group together as they are same thing.

Feb 28, 2025 · Note that it's usually discouraged to try to mix different toolkits. If you're actually creating a Qt application, you'll have issues dealing with two different event loops. Maybe consider the createWindowContainer() function by running the …

Oct 25, 2013 · Don't use PyGTK if you want cross platform compatibility. GTK3 doesn't work on windows yet (last I checked) and GTK2 has an awful memory leak under windows which has been fixed in the latest source, but no new release has been compiled for windows.