[Development] Basing Qt Creator Coding Style on C++ Core Guidelines?

[Thiago Macieira]

On terça-feira, 22 de novembro de 2016 06:13:44 PST Marco Bubke wrote:
> So you say it it does not work because of themeing support? Isn't Qt
> Controls 2 not anymore providing them too. And is there no technical
> solutions for that? Like propagating the values to the Flatpack themeing
> engine. This could be improve the interoperability between different
> desktop libraries too. The implementation which is based on GTK or Qt is
> suboptimal anyway. It shows visually why Linux Desktop was never widely
> adopted. I mean the lack of cooperation and the hesitancy to try to
> understand the context of the other. I use Linux all the day, but honestly
> many things are broken, especially where Unix wasn't copied.

So you're saying we need to develop another GUI toolkit for Linux desktops so 
that we can share some common things between the existing toolkits?

This comes to mind: https://xkcd.com/927/

Theming and styling is a complex operation. It's not just "propagating 
values". Reading config files will at best get you the right font, correct icon 
set, and somewhat correct colours. But gradients, shapes, complex dialogs will 
not work.

And I don't see anyone volunteering for a major overhaul of QtWidget's styling 
system. I don't even think a volunteer would be *accepted* by the Qt Project. 
So, no, there is no solution. Qt applications in a flatpak or similar will not 
look or feel native, therefore it is not an acceptable solution for an 
application of regular use.

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Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
  Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center