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Kirigami tutorial now ported to Qt6

Friday, 14 June 2024  |  Thiago Masato Costa Sueto

After three months, KDE’s Kirigami tutorial has been ported to Qt6.

In case you are unaware of what Kirigami is:

  • Qt provides two GUI technologies to create desktop apps: QtWidgets and QtQuick
  • QtWidgets uses only C++ while QtQuick uses QML (plus optional C++ and JavaScript)
  • Kirigami is a library made by KDE that extends QtQuick and provides a lot of niceties and quality-of-life components

Strictly speaking there weren’t that many API changes to Kirigami. The most notable changes were: