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Port to QT #2

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@fsimonis

I am considering to port the application to QT as using GTK has some severe downsides:

  • Barely existent documentation for python bindings
  • Inconsistently packaged pygobject among distros making it tricky to install
  • xdot (which I use for the dot preview) not being maintained any more and locking us into gtk3

Upsides of QT:

  • Very good documentation for the python bindings
  • Consistently packaged single dependency

Loosing xdot:

  • Render to svg/pdf and display it in a Qt window.
  • No node highlighting
  • Not sure about mouse-over hints
  • More functionality possible via xdot conversion, but this requires implementing many things from scratch. Not worth it for the extra functionality.

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