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[Simon Richter <Simon.Richter@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On 22.10.2018 16:55, Mark Roszko wrote:

>>I'd rather have the view, tools and core frameworks independent from
>> any UI toolkit. 

>   Yes! Things change. The world develops as KiCad develops as well.
> Building into QT heavily just like wxWidgets could have the same
> ramifications later on if Qt ever fell out of favor.

Also, Qt does not bring us any real advantage over wx.

Dialogs are still going to consist of panels, sizers and widgets put
together either by hand or with a designer tool, but we'd lose static
checking of event handler signatures, as Qt favours string comparison at
runtime for some reason.

   Simon

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