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

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

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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…

QtCreator maybe?

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

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post #11
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…

QtCreator maybe?

seconded, I used the general design ideas of QtCreator as a baseline for my own stuff and it's been great

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

#16
post #4

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

EVen thought I understand the bashing Electron gets, it doesn't seem that Qt is the right choice right now.

I tried to test the software: Needed Qt as there are no releases, but Qt is behind a paywall, and according to a previous post here in HN [1] it seems they resorted back to tactics they already reckoned (In 2015) were not good. I guess I'll just have to wait until the page has the releases ready.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22821050

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

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post #16
post #4

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

EVen thought I understand the bashing Electron gets, it doesn't seem that Qt is the right choice right now. I tried to test the software: Needed Qt as there are no releases, but Qt is behind a paywall, and according to a previous post here in HN [1] it seems they resorted back to tactics they already reckoned (In 2015) were not good. I guess I'll just have to wait until the page has the releases ready. [1] https://ne…

> but Qt is behind a paywall,

apt install qtbase5-dev / brew install qt / whatever works just fine here.

if you are on windows and absolutely want the official releases :

    pip install aqtinstall
    python -m aqt install 5.14.2 windows desktop win64_msvc2017_64 -O c:/Qt/

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

#19

How would I get this to run on MacOS?

Should be able to download the .app release from here https://github.com/francescmm/GitQlient/blob/master/docs/ind....

Looks to be build instructions as well in appendix b on the same page.

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