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Can you expand on this?

>You will need a big amount of hacks to make your project work on different platforms. Especially if you do something fancy.

Having done Windows-Linux Qt, I haven't noticed needing "hacks" (unless you count the hacks necessary to build anything on Windows at all cuz the OS wasn't meant for programming ;p).

The fanciest thing I've done is theming (light, dark, etc.), which Qt doesn't seem to support natively, and which is difficult to do sanely without some "hacking".

>Not to mention serious licencing issues.

What issues? Is it just that it's LGPL, or what?



I said “if you do something fancy”. For example custom widgets with qpainter, etc

Light/dark theming should be easy with stylesheets.




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