Are there third-party libraries (e.g., KDE's graphics libraries) that are only compatible with Qt(C++) and not available for Qt(Python)?
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Hello,
The company wants to use Qt to develop desktop software because Qt can be written in both C++ and Python (PySide). However, there are two concerns:
- How significant is the gap in execution efficiency between software developed with Qt(Python) and Qt(C++)?
- Are there third-party libraries (e.g., KDE's graphics libraries) that are only compatible with Qt(C++) and not available for Qt(Python)?
We know there have PyKDE, does PyKDE implement most of the UI components of KDE?
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Hello,
The company wants to use Qt to develop desktop software because Qt can be written in both C++ and Python (PySide). However, there are two concerns:
- How significant is the gap in execution efficiency between software developed with Qt(Python) and Qt(C++)?
- Are there third-party libraries (e.g., KDE's graphics libraries) that are only compatible with Qt(C++) and not available for Qt(Python)?
We know there have PyKDE, does PyKDE implement most of the UI components of KDE?
- Qt itself is always compiled even if you use PySide. So, the only difference is the one between compiled C++ code and interpreted Python code, but that has nothing to do with Qt.
- You should rather check which libraries you need and whether those are available in PySide. Most of the Qt libraries are available in PySide as far as I know. PyKDE is not part of Qt, you should consider ask them.
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Just to add to point 2.
PyKDE seems to be very old and unmaintained.
But, you can write KDE Apps with Python https://develop.kde.org/docs/getting-started/python/ (using Kirigami, like the C++ apps do)
