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GitQlient – a multi-platform GUI-oriented Git client written with Qt

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Post by app4soft » Mon, Apr 27, 2020, 1:38 PM UTC

GitQlient – a multi-platform GUI-oriented Git client written with Qt
francescmm.github.io

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Post by ktpsns » Mon, Apr 27, 2020, 1:55 PM UTC

The tree looks nice. Similar to gitk, sourcetree or bitbucket. For whatever reason, github and gitlab cannot manage to get a similiar clean vertical git tree view.

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Post by speedgoose » Mon, Apr 27, 2020, 1:59 PM UTC

The link's layout is broken on mobile.

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Post by pjmlp » Mon, Apr 27, 2020, 2:07 PM UTC

Nice, good job, specially for going with Qt instead of Electron.

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Post by W0lf » Mon, Apr 27, 2020, 2:24 PM UTC

Is anyone aware of a publicly available code base to look into when searching for high quality Qt-based (desktop) applications? Think chromium-quality software quality code base. I am looking for inspiring patterns and also things such as naming schemes as I regularly change my mind when it comes to developing Qt based applications with regard to:

  - naming things (e.g. should signals/slots be prefixed (sigFoo() -> onFooBared())
  - how to deal with signal functions actually not implemented (clang-tidy warnings)
  - how to break up large main window classes in a reasonable manner

and so on. Typically I immerse myself in one of the larger code bases I'm aware of (Android, Firefox, Chromium, Tensorflow, and some others) and regularly discover pretty useful patterns I can make use of. However, I was unlucky to find something for Qt based.

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Post by lindgrenj6 » Mon, Apr 27, 2020, 2:26 PM UTC

This looks amazing! Looks almost as slick as GitKraken, without requiring all of my RAM+1GB to run.

Great work! I'll be recommending this to anyone who is looking for a git GUI client.

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Post by zwieback » Mon, Apr 27, 2020, 2:32 PM UTC

W0lf wrote: post #5

Is anyone aware of a publicly available code base to look into when searching for high quality Qt-based (desktop) applications? Think chromium-quality software quality code base. I am looking for inspiring patterns and also things such as naming schemes as I regularly change my mind when it comes to developing Qt based applications with regard to: - naming things (e.g. should signals/slots be prefixed (sigFoo() -> on…

You could look at KDE, I don't know about the quality but it's a big enough public effort that it should be well reviewed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KDE_Projects

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Post by hoistbypetard » Mon, Apr 27, 2020, 2:32 PM UTC

W0lf wrote: post #5

Is anyone aware of a publicly available code base to look into when searching for high quality Qt-based (desktop) applications? Think chromium-quality software quality code base. I am looking for inspiring patterns and also things such as naming schemes as I regularly change my mind when it comes to developing Qt based applications with regard to: - naming things (e.g. should signals/slots be prefixed (sigFoo() -> on…

The KDE applications would seem like a good place to start.

https://kde.org/applications/office

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Post by ynezz » Mon, Apr 27, 2020, 2:35 PM UTC

W0lf wrote: post #5

Is anyone aware of a publicly available code base to look into when searching for high quality Qt-based (desktop) applications? Think chromium-quality software quality code base. I am looking for inspiring patterns and also things such as naming schemes as I regularly change my mind when it comes to developing Qt based applications with regard to: - naming things (e.g. should signals/slots be prefixed (sigFoo() -> on…

Qt itself, like for example https://github.com/qt/qttools?

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Post by MaxBarraclough » Mon, Apr 27, 2020, 2:43 PM UTC

ynezz wrote: post #9

W0lf wrote: post #5

Is anyone aware of a publicly available code base to look into when searching for high quality Qt-based (desktop) applications? Think chromium-quality software quality code base. I am looking for inspiring patterns and also things such as naming schemes as I regularly change my mind when it comes to developing Qt based applications with regard to: - naming things (e.g. should signals/slots be prefixed (sigFoo() -> on…

Qt itself, like for example https://github.com/qt/qttools ?

Good suggestion. Code snippets showing the naming style they use:

    connect(contextShortcut, SIGNAL(activated()), this, SLOT(showContextDock()));

    connect(m_messageView->selectionModel(),
        SIGNAL(currentColumnChanged(QModelIndex,QModelIndex)),
        SLOT(updateLatestModel(QModelIndex)));

Taken from https://github.com/qt/qttools/blob/7ec161d6f/src/linguist/li...