[SailfishDevel] Linux desktop software on Sailfish?

[Sander van Grieken]

On dinsdag 6 maart 2018 23:46:13 CET Dietmar Schwertberger wrote:
> On 3/6/2018 11:28 PM, tuntematon wrote:
> > Wasn't Maemo GTK based? Qt came with Harmattan/Meego.
> 
> I'm using Python. On Maemo the Python Qt bindings 'PySide' were
> perfectly usable with a native look and feel.
> On Sailfish, I'm using PyQt, but the 'traditional' Qt widgets look like
> on Windows, i.e. with a very non-native look and feel.
> 
> It's not that Sailfish comes with Qt. Effectively it's more that Qt
> comes with Sailfish and there are no other GUI options.

Sailfish doesn't use Qt Widgets, but instead QtQuick QML. Those are completely 
different component sets. You see the same difference in KDE for example, they 
are reïmplementing the existing Qt Widgets in a new QML component library as 
well (Kirigami I believe it's called)

grtz,
Sander