Qt Framework

I've been trying to style my Qt apps since I discovered the old Motif-look Style Plugin still exists; maybe I can have software not made in 1994 that looks like it was!

In the process, I noticed an odd behaviour.

I set up QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=qt5ct so I could use qt5ct to do the basic configuration.

If I set the "general" font as bold, and the "fixed width" value as non-bold, when I reload qt5ct, it's switched to bold. This can also be seen in other Qt programs.

If I manually force the issue by editing qt5ct.conf, manually setting up a block like this, the bold fixed-width font still shows

[Fonts]

fixed="Go Mono,11,-1,5,75,0,0,0,0,0,Regular"

general="Helvetica,11,-1,5,75,0,0,0,0,0,Bold"

I thought this might be some weirdness due to the specific fonts I chose, but swapping in "Liberation Sans" and "Courier 10 Pitch" produce the same situation.

The only way I can have my fixed-width font be "regular" is to also leave the general font as "regular". This is not a connection I expected.

Is this a known issue? Is there a workaround?

changelog

From the Qt World Summit 2021, but it mentions cool things like avoiding unqualified access, string interpolation, interaction signals and object names.

Not sure about ?? and ?. though...

• Granularity Filters
• Aggregate Functions Filters
• Line Meter View
• New Average Funnel Completion Time
• New UI Look and Feel
• Usability and Analytics Query Fixes

Cool stuff:

Qt 6.7 introduces convenience improvements for implementing typical RESTful/HTTP client applications. The goal was/is to reduce the repeating networking boilerplate code by up to 40% by addressing the small but systematically repeating needs in a more convenient way.

These include a new QHttpHeaders class for representing HTTP headers, QNetworkRequestFactory for creating API-specific requests, QRestAccessManager class for addressing small but often-repeating pieces of code, and QRestReply class for extracting the data from replies and checking for errors. QNetworkRequestFactory, QRestAccessManager, and QRestReply are released as Technical Previews in Qt 6.7.