Which GUI toolkit should I learn so that I can "Hack the UI"

Miklos Vajna vmiklos at collabora.com
Mon May 6 07:20:15 UTC 2024


Hi,

On Fri, May 03, 2024 at 10:45:01PM +0530, Printf Debugging <printfdebugging at gmail.com> wrote:
> **Opinions invited**: I want to work on the UI, beyond small issues, like
> creating custom widgets, notebookbar, tabbed UI etc. I feel that I need to
> know a GUI toolkit well, like gtk or qt for that. So some days ago, I
> started playing around with GTK. My question is that which toolkit will be
> more useful? I picked GTK because we use .ui files for the UI, and being
> good at GTK will somehow help when working on LO UI, but again I don't know,
> that's just an idea.

gtk is probably a good idea, given that these days much of the UI is
welded and the LO weld API is designed after gtk.

Regards,

Miklos


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