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    Default QT C++ Desktop End of Life?

    Hi,

    Been using QT C++ for desktop for as long it is was owned by Trolltech. It's been a wild ride and I always though "This is the way!". I've noticed over the years that the development for "Desktop" new widgets and improvements isn't happening. I realized that all the awaited features are getting stuffed in QT Quick/QML and "Desktop" is left behind with last century tools and widgets.

    Any thoughts and/or hope that C++ Desktop would eventually get a facelifted with most recent widgets?

    Thanks

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    Default Re: QT C++ Desktop End of Life?

    Are you asking about visual or functional facelift?
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    Default Re: QT C++ Desktop End of Life?

    Qt/Digia are not interested in developing it any further.

    Desktop is not where they make money, so they have no intensive. I am developing a desktop program - and I feel a lot of "subsystems" are missing in Qt6. Many widgets I would like to have, I am just writing myself. Lots of "modern" programming paradigms are missing from widgets.

    Its not dead.But I feel its a dead end.

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    Default Re: QT C++ Desktop End of Life?

    I too develop only desktop Qt/C++ applications. I stopped with Qt 5.15.3 because Qt's licensing model for Qt 6 was unacceptable for me. The set of UI widgets in that release are sufficient for my needs, and if I need something else, I look to KDAB, KDE Frameworks, or write my own.

    I'm not all that worried if my applications look a bit old-fashioned. The market for which I write my applications isn't impressed by gee whiz UI features, they want usability and more importantly the results that the software produces.
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    Yes, same here. We also stayed at Qt 5.15 because of the licensing of Qt6.

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    Default Re: QT C++ Desktop End of Life?

    which widgets were removed from "free" usage in Qt6 but were available in Qt5?

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    Quote Originally Posted by elcuco View Post
    which widgets were removed from "free" usage in Qt6 but were available in Qt5?
    I don't think anything was removed between Qt5 and Qt6, at least not in the QtCore, QtGui, and QtWidgets components. There could have been new things added in Qt6, but since I'm not using it I can't tell you what those might be, if anything.

    As the OP said, there have been many additions to QtQuick/QML which apparently do not have corresponding implementations on the QtWidgets side. In the early days of QtQuick and QML, things implemented on that side were also implemented on the QtWidgets side, but possibly that is because most of the work was in ensuring that QtQuick and QML were a more or less complete mapping from QtWidgets and not the other way around.
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