QtPlugin vs Filer

QtPlugin

Qt platform plugin and style, required for Qt applications to export their menus over D-Bus in the required format (by helloSystem)

hellosystem Qt Desktop Qss

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Filer

A file manager that can also render the desktop (by helloSystem)

Qt hellosystem File Manager

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QtPlugin		Filer
	Project
1	Mentions	4
5	Stars	29
-	Growth	-
7.5	Activity	6.5
7 months ago	Latest Commit	4 months ago
C++	Language	C++
-	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 only

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

QtPlugin

Posts with mentions or reviews of QtPlugin. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2020-12-26.

helloSystem: Three-layer UX design philosophy for Simplicity and Power
2 projects | /r/freebsd | 26 Dec 2020

helloSystem uses a Qt stylesheet that can be edited to your heart's content.

Filer

Posts with mentions or reviews of Filer. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-13.

"Danilo Negrilo" maliciosly edited many locales on Weblate, not only Ubuntu
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Oct 2023
Ubuntu 23.10 release image withdrawn due to malicious translation incident
4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Oct 2023

And not only Ubuntu's locales has been maliciosly edited by anonymous "Danilo Negrilo", but many other projects' locales on Weblate has been maliciously edited by the same anonymous 'contributor' too.[0]
[0] https://github.com/helloSystem/Filer/issues/182
Some comments on helloSystem, the FreeBSD-based macOS clone
1 project | /r/BSD | 21 Feb 2023
Alternative Plasma Global Menu
1 project | /r/kde | 9 Apr 2022

Here is the issue that led to the implementation of the Filer menu being visible also when no Filer window is open: https://github.com/helloSystem/Filer/issues/18

What are some alternatives?

When comparing QtPlugin and Filer you can also consider the following projects:

hello - Desktop system for creators with a focus on simplicity, elegance, and usability. Based on FreeBSD. Less, but better!

ubuntu-desktop-provision - Ubuntu Desktop Provision

nodegui - A library for building cross-platform native desktop applications with Node.js and CSS 🚀. React NodeGui : https://react.nodegui.org and Vue NodeGui: https://vue.nodegui.org

NewBreeze - NewBreeze File Manager based on Qt

fsmng - The new kind of file manager for Windows

FarManager - File and Archive Manager

explorerplusplus - Explorer++ is a lightweight and fast file manager for Windows

esp8266-iot-framework - Framework for IoT projects implementing HTTPS requests, a React web interface, WiFi manager, live dashboard, configuration manager, file manager and OTA updates.

Menu - Global menu bar written in Qt