• The forecast is looking Qt1for fans ofopen-source weather appTyphoon, the latest update to which swaps its creaking GTK3 backend for a lithe Qt 6 one • What’s interesting about this change in Typhoon 1 • x is that it doesn’t impact the UI in any noticeable way • The app still uses a colourful, borderless window with optional transparency, and conveys weather forecast data via stark white text and glyphs • Archisman Panigrahi, Typhoon’s developer, says the Qt port was needed since GTK3 is being deprecated, but that rewriting the app in GTK4 was a non-starter given it ‘does not play well with simultaneously borderless and draggable windows’ • Most apps use traditional window frames and normal widget sets to render their UIs

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  • The forecast is looking Qt1 for fans of open-source weather app Typhoon, the latest update to which swaps its creaking GTK3 backend for a lithe Qt 6 one. What’s interesting about this change in Typhoon 1.7.x is that it doesn’t impact the UI in any noticeable way. The app still uses a colourful, borderless window with optional transparency, and conveys weather forecast data via stark white text and glyphs. Archisman Panigrahi, Typhoon’s developer, says the Qt port was needed since GTK3 is being deprecated, but that rewriting the app in GTK4 was a non-starter given it ‘does not play well with si

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