[Qgis-developer] Qt development on Gnome

[Alex Mandel]

On 06/02/2010 12:27 PM, Ivan Mincik wrote:
> Hi,
> I would like to ask if somebody is using Gnome desktop for
> using/developing QGIS and plugins?
> I don't want to make any KDE/Gnome flame war. My company is using KDE
> desktop since Debian Etch. Now using KDE 3.5 on Lenny and it fits our
> needs really well.
> Currently we are making decision, what kind of desktop to use when
> Debian Squeeze will come out and we are not very excited of KDE 4. I
> think, Gnome will be our choice. Question is, if we are not going to
> loose some quality in terms of Qt and QGIS ?
> 
> I have one example: I was trying to create some UI dialog in Qt
> Creator in Gnome and I had strong feeling, that the widget look was
> still really different than in KDE (also in preview). So, how can I be
> sure, that UI  dialog will be OK in KDE or in windows. Also QGIS
> widgets and look and feel is quite different, so I can not make any
> serious tests.
> 
> 
> What is Your point of view ?
> 
> Thanks
> Ivan

I develop QGIS plugins on Ubuntu using Gnome and occasionally test them
on windows xp. I haven't noticed any real difference besides the color
scheme and shape of the outside of dialogs.

Qt is Qt, building the dialogs in Gnome or KDE isn't going to change the
fact that it's Qt, just stick with defaults and autosizing and stay away
from very custom nit picky placement of things.

It's good practice to leave all the sorting of widgets to layouts and
spacers anyways.

FYI, you could always log out and log into KDE to check the look, or
pull up a windows virtual machine to verify things are ok. While I use
gnome most of the time several of my machines are capable of switching
to XFCE and KDE whenever I feel like it, just takes a little more hard
drive space (as long as you continue to run gdm, if you switch to kdm
then you get extra processes too).

Enjoy,
Alex