[Interest] Preferred way to create custom look-and-feel GUI

[André Pönitz]

On Sun, May 08, 2016 at 04:40:02PM +0200, Jan Müller wrote:
> What does QtCreator use to implement the GUI?

A few of the ~50 standard plugins (the Welcome screen and the QML
tooling) are using Qt Quick but the bulk of plugins as well as the
shell including the mode bar on the left are all Qt Widgets based.

> For example the navigation bar at the left with the "Welcome", "Edit",
> "Design", etc. buttons. I tried to look into the sources of QtCreator,
> but got a bit lost.

src/plugins/coreplugins/fancytabwidget.{h,cpp}

Andre'