Zrythm is an interesting open-source digital audio workstation (DAW) software package. It’s been making use of the GTK toolkit but now the developers have decided to switch to Qt6 instead.
Switching the UI framework sounds like a massive refactor.
Qt is by far the better framework. This could also be a chance to implement a super UI/UX, it could also be a complexity hell. I will have a look at the project, let’s see if the outcome wil be a better product.
Qt is by far the better framework
Not on Sway, every Qt app i’ve used feels like it tries to put in every option and dialogs always look too busy, GTK is quite abstractive and opinionated but i’ll deal with that
Apps looking odd or not is the job of the main drawing framework.
Qt themes are able to draw GTK but GTK can not draw Qt actually proves my point.
That likely has more to do with the culture of KDE vs GNOME. You can make pretty much the same UI with either toolkit.
Crazy! Zrythm was “the GTK DAW” for me, and Qt6 sounds like a better option? Lets see!
Any thoughts on how this compares to Tracktion? That’s been my “linux daw” but haven’t really tried any others
!!! I need to try this. Ardour has always been the only real option for me.
I can recommend trying it. Used it on my MacOS installation. Free version works great, but I felt the need for some paid features sometimes (more convenient workflow). But you can totally get job done with the free one just fine.
It’s really rare for a project to completely rewrite to a new toolkit. VLC in circa 2007 did it (moved to Qt - even stole their volume control widget directly from Amarok at the time). GCompris ended up as a KDE project despite originating in Gnome (along with toolkit change, but it weirdly kept the name). LXDE->LXQT also. But I don’t actually have that many examples.
audacious too! though oddly enough they’ve gone back to gtk3 in recent versions alongside their qt version
Sweet I need to build zrythm again, ah or maybe someone already put it in nixpkgs!!
Great!
They are C++ already. If they deigned the application well, a UI toolkit change should not be too bad. Not trivial but manageable.
I always hate to see apps move off GTK but their first point is about cross-platform and there is just no denying that Qt has a vastly better cross-platform story than GTK does.
