Zrythm is an interesting open-source digital audio workstation (DAW) software package. It’s been making use of the GTK toolkit but now the developers have decided to switch to Qt6 instead.
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Any thoughts on how this compares to Tracktion? That’s been my “linux daw” but haven’t really tried any others
!!! I need to try this. Ardour has always been the only real option for me.
I can recommend trying it. Used it on my MacOS installation. Free version works great, but I felt the need for some paid features sometimes (more convenient workflow). But you can totally get job done with the free one just fine.
It’s really rare for a project to completely rewrite to a new toolkit. VLC in circa 2007 did it (moved to Qt - even stole their volume control widget directly from Amarok at the time). GCompris ended up as a KDE project despite originating in Gnome (along with toolkit change, but it weirdly kept the name). LXDE->LXQT also. But I don’t actually have that many examples.
They are C++ already. If they deigned the application well, a UI toolkit change should not be too bad. Not trivial but manageable.
I always hate to see apps move off GTK but their first point is about cross-platform and there is just no denying that Qt has a vastly better cross-platform story than GTK does.
Sweet I need to build zrythm again, ah or maybe someone already put it in nixpkgs!!
