PEpeter-haha·Apr 21, 2023
That's exactly what we are doing with QSkinny: https://github.com/uwerat/qskinny, we have been using it for a customer project for years now...
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qskinny
A lightweight framework on top of the Qt scene graph and only few classes from Qt/Quick. It is usable from C++ and/or QML.
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What it is
A lightweight framework on top of the Qt scene graph and only few classes from Qt/Quick. It is usable from C++ and/or QML.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
2 sourcesKinda - QML is a programming language, Qt Quick is an UI scene graph (with the main way to use it being through QML) which also "renders everything" and makes by default less effort than widgets to look like the OS.
But :
- QML can be used with other graphics stack - for instance Qt Widgets like with https://www.kdab.com/declarative-widgets/ or alternatives to the official Qt Quick controls with https://github.com/uwerat/qskinny or with completely custom rendering like here with NanoVG : https://github.com/QUItCoding/qnanopainter
- QtQuick Controls can be made to use the same style hints than the desktop with https://github.com/KDE/qqc2-desktop-style
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