[Interest] Which "Widget" technology to use when starting a new desktop app

[André Pönitz]

On Thu, Jan 05, 2017 at 04:03:56PM +0100, Jason H wrote:
> 
> > After watching the webinar "The Curse of Choice: An overview of GUI 
> > technologies in Qt?"[1] I am even more confused as to what to use for 
> > our new desktop app. Here are a few of the background details. The app 
> > will be cross platform to desktop systems, not embedded at all. The app 
> > will be displaying some "image" data from hdf5 files and performing some 
> > "real" time basic image manipulations (gamma corrections, coloring of 
> > data) on that data. The app will eventually call out to some existing 
> > libraries to perform some long running analysis/simulations. We are 
> > currently using Qt 5.6.2 due to its long term maintenance guarantees.
> > 
> > In the past I have used QGraphics* classes to show images and perform 
> > basic zoom, save, compositing functions but the webinar makes it pretty 
> > clear NOT to use those classes any more. The webinar seems to push QML 
> > and the Qt Quick classes as the way forward for desktop apps. One of the 
> > issues that we might have with QML is the need to apply styling to those 
> > widgets, none of us are UX/Styling experts by any stretch of the 
> > imagination. I took a look at QOpenGLWidget to display/manipulate the 
> > images so that we get an accelerated canvas to use. That looked 
> > promising in combination with traditional QWidgets.
> > 
> > I would like to hear other peoples experiences & suggestions as to what 
> > they are doing. I don't want to write the app and then have to figure 
> > out how to port it to another Qt technology in a year or so after our 
> > funding has run out.
> 
> 
> The mantra is to use QML.

Definitely not true for the kind aof applications the OP describes.

Anndre'