qskinny
A lightweight framework on top of the Qt scene graph and only few classes from Qt/Quick. It is usable from C++ and/or QML. (by uwerat)
tdesktop
Telegram Desktop messaging app (by telegramdesktop)
| qskinny | tdesktop | |
|---|---|---|
| 5 | 169 | |
| 1,288 | 24,598 | |
| - | 1.7% | |
| 9.5 | 9.9 | |
| 8 days ago | 4 days ago | |
| C++ | C++ | |
| BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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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.
qskinny
Posts with mentions or reviews of qskinny.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-21.
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Current Issues with the Qt Project – From the Outside Looking In
That's exactly what we are doing with QSkinny: https://github.com/uwerat/qskinny, we have been using it for a customer project for years now...
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Am I the only one miss C++ application GUI that is so much snappier and responsive than todays GUI framework such as Electron or others using python, JS etc?
Not really, or at least, not fully. The roadmap for Qt 6 somewhat vaguely intends to have a C++ API for Qt Quick Controls (now there is, but very limited and private with no compatibility, and ugly to use). I think they are seeing that QSkinny can take some market from them.
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Modern/Flat/Material UI using QT Widgets
C++ qt quick: https://github.com/uwerat/qskinny
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High performance pixel perfect applications. Qt vs wxWidgets vs GTK+
Do you think that an approach like QSkinny would work for you? I've not used it myself in practice (just running the examples, and looking at the code), but the idea of it is that it uses Qt Quick as a backend (so I guess in Qt 6 it would use OpenGL/Vulkan/Metal/etc as needed without you having to do the abstraction), and IIRC it uses some of the private APIs that Qt Quick Controls use as well for the C++ side. QSkinny doesn't require to use QML though (should be optional, but I think C++ is preferred/more tested). It has been said also that during the Qt 6 timeline, there might be a C++ public API for Qt Quick Controls.
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Qt 5.15.3 Open Source released (1 year after it being commercial only)
It kind of is (with a 3rd party library). Or you can use the private API (which I would not recommend). A public C++ API for Qt Quick Controls is planned as well, but I'm not very optimistic on the time frame.
tdesktop
Posts with mentions or reviews of tdesktop.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-09.
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Telegram Remote Code Exploit
https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop/commit/eaaa704fa...
so potentially could be just to send an Instant View link pointing to an app instead of a site.
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Proton Mail finally gets a desktop app for encrypted email and calendar
How is telegram Electron if it's https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop C++/QT?
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Telegram app is listed in audio sources but it is not running
Please report this to the Telegram GitHub.
- Is the Telegram package in RPM Fusion repositories considered safe and actively maintained for installation?
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[Q] What's the best TG client for Linux?
The Telegram Desktop app is available on Linux, and since it is open source, is commonly available in distro repositories.
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Open chats in new window
You just need to install Telegram Desktop if you want this specific thing :) Go to https://desktop.telegram.org and download it there.
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Need help saving settings. or setting a backup
Download the https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop
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Telegram install on Tails
Download the https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop within the same directory as the Telegram executable, create a folder called TelegramForcePortable. This way you can save the Telegram settings across reboots in your persistent storage. no installation needed!
- What non-FOSS you can't live without?
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Official Telegram app : CPU hog
There are 2 versions, one is Telegram Desktop that you can get from their GitHub page, the other one is available on AppStore. I personally use the latter and it’s pretty much negligible in terms of battery impact.
What are some alternatives?
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Librum - The Librum client application
webview - Tiny cross-platform webview library for C/C++. Uses WebKit (GTK/Cocoa) and Edge WebView2 (Windows).
vgc - Next-Gen Graphic Design and 2D Animation
Yacy - Distributed Peer-to-Peer Web Search Engine and Intranet Search Appliance
imgui - Dear ImGui: Bloat-free Graphical User interface for C++ with minimal dependencies
kotatogram-desktop - Experimental Telegram Desktop fork.
Avalonia - Develop Desktop, Embedded, Mobile and WebAssembly apps with C# and XAML. The most popular .NET UI client technology
TelegramSwift - Source code of Telegram for macos on Swift 5.0