Where should I design the UI for my desktop application?

[agelo1995]

Hello everyone, I'm a new member of the Qt Community and I'm kind of lost for the moment.

I have an existing project with very basic UI built in QtCreator (just drag n drop elements) but it looks awfully old and ugly.
I would like to change many many things about the paddings , color , alignments , icon buttons and create custom buttons etc.. but it seems to be very time consuming with the CSS

I noticed that Design Studio seems to be more modern with its elements but I don't know if it's the right choice for a UI Designer.

Being a mobile developer for the past few years, I'm used for example to place in the UI a ListView and then modify the list and the item's layout.

In Design Studio I feel that, all I can do, is just create containers with background colors and paddings and placeholders , maybe place some buttons.
Also, I don't see any CSS editor in Qt DS ,
-- Is this true?

Then in QtCreator replace the placeholders with an actual ListView "widget/element".
-- Is this correct?

It is my first time with QML and I have not fully understand their usage and their limitations.

-- Should I spend more time on the Qt Design Studio or is it only for advanced animations and graphics designer?

-- Should I use QtCreator for desktop UI widgets , pages, popups and modify CSS there?

[Atr0p0s]

@agelo1995 Hi! First of all, I want to say that I am new to qt too, so I may be wrong. But after reviewing some resources I got the impression, that nowadays people use QML for creating UI since it has more features and is easier to do than using C++ for this purpose. Somewhere I saw the idea that no one uses Qt Design Studio now.
Qt also has The Style Sheet Syntax which is almost identical to CSS.

[saimonrichard]

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