What do you suggest me to do in order to use wxWidgets instead of Qt?

[raphael10-collab]

What do you suggest me to do in order to use wxWidgets instead of Qt?
What's the smoothest way to proceed?

[barracuda156]

That would be nice to have an alternative that has a better cross-platform support than Qt5.

[morganava]

@raphael10-collab using wxWidgets would require a complete re-write of both the frontend and the backend (since the protocol layer depends almost entirely on Qt for functionality.

I've started experimenting with wxWidgets in a local branch of Ricochet-Refresh (the project this one was forked from, see: #46 for context). While it will be possible to use wxWidgets, it is going to be a fair bit of work to achieve feature-parity with the current Qt 5.15 version. In particular, it is going to require implementing a custom widget for the chat-log to properly support RTL locales and correct rendering of strings with mixed LTR and RTL languages (e.g. Arabic or Persian with mixed in English words). wxWidgets' built-in HTML renderer is rather legacy and doesn't correctly handle the above scenario correctly 😦 Accessibility support (i.e. for screen readers) is also only available to wxWidgets-based applications on Windows which kind of sucks, but in theory support could be added to the upstream macOS and GTK3+ wxWidgets backends.

If you're interested in collabing on this, feel free to reach out. There's a ton of work to do and wouldn't mind some help :)

[morganava]

Whoops, I see @raphael10-collab already asked this in blueprint-freespeech/ricochet-refresh#198 lol