Qt being now released under LGPL, would you recommend it over wxWidgets? [closed]

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For those of us who are drawn to wxWidgets because it is the cross-platform library that uses native controls for proper look and feel the licensing change of Qt has little to no consequences.

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Regarding

Qt not having native controls but native drawing functions

let me quote the wxWidgets wiki page comparing toolkits:

Qt doesn't have true native ports like wxWidgets does. What we mean by this is that even though Qt draws them quite realistically, Qt draws its own widgets on each platform. It's worth mentioning though that Qt comes with special styles for Mac OS X and Windows XP and Vista that use native APIs (Appearance Manager on Mac OS X, UxTheme on Windows XP) for drawing standard widget primitives (e.g. scrollbars or buttons) exactly like any native application. Event handling, the resulting visual feedback and widget layout are always implemented by Qt.

I'm currently using pyqt at work and I find myself totally satisfied. You have better documentation (IMHO), better event managing (signal-slot pattern is somehow more powerful than the old simple-callback style), and importing your custom widget in a graphical designer like qt-designer is far easier. As far as I can tell qt-designer is more powerful than any wxpython counterpart, like Boa Constructor and pyGlade). You also have great support for translating program's strings in different languages (better support than wxLocale at least, and you can use a tool like Qt-Linguist which is fully integrated in the qt system).

I'm using wxpython in some hobbistic works, but I'm still a noob there. I think its greater advantage over pyqt is to have a native look&feel on different platforms. This is a huge point if you are developing windows/linux applications, for example. Actually you could use "skins" to obtain a native look&feel with windows-qt applications but I have no idea on how to achieve that (sorry, I've never used qt on windows :D).

Honestly, I don't think that people will massively switch away from WxWidgets.

For python, there are PyQt bindings and WxPython bindings. Despite Qt being much more practical than WxWidgets, the majority of GUI python open source programs are written with WxWidgets. Since those programs are open source, the GPL vs LGPL did not matter that much in their choice of toolkit.

The same goes for Gtk. Many open source applications are written in Gtk, on windows, despite Gtk being very difficult to work with on windows. With Qt, those applications would be a lot easier to maintain on a cross platform basis, but it has not happened.

So, choice of toolkit is influenced by many parameters, licensing being only one of them.

I still don't understand why Qt is not more mainstream, because it's in my opinion the easiest and more practical GUI toolkit ever written.

Please note that, as of Jan 2009, while Qt 4.5 was to be available under LGPL, Riverbank Computing hadn't made any announcement about licensing for future versions of PyQt. PyQt is still only commercial/GPLv2/GPLv3.

As noted in comments for this answer, Nokia announced the LGPL-licensed PySide project in August 2009.