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

[Pierre Vacher <prrvchr@xxxxxxxxx>]

I have extensions which display dialog windows in LibreOffice and which use neither GTK nor QT but only the UNO API.

see: https://prrvchr.github.io/

One of the advantages is that the UNO API allows me to manage all my dialogs in Python...

Le lundi 6 mai 2024, Michael Weghorn <m.weghorn@xxxxxxxxx> a écrit :
> On 2024-05-03 19:15, Printf Debugging wrote:
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>> **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.
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> Starting with GTK generally sounds reasonable to me.
> Concepts are usually very similar in other toolkits (like Qt), so learning GTK will also help understanding those better.
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> In any case, I recommend explicitly testing the non-GTK case when doing UI changes (with SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=gen and qt5/qt6/kf5/kf6 on Linux or by testing on a different platform).
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