Make desktop apps great again
wxwidgets would likely be cleaner to maintain over the long-term, and seems more stable for event callbacks etc.
I'll admit some users like spelunking environment variables like QT_QPA_PLATFORM, and application specific python3-venv installs...
Sometimes a web SPA is just easier to avoid the whole mess of porting. =3
QT is run by a for-profit company ($QTCOM, TIL!) selling commercial licenses, Electron is maintained by OpenJS, who has it MIT-licensed all the way. QT uses a language that was designed in 1985 (literally 1-5y after GUIs first appeared) and Electron uses a language designed in 1995 (for the express purpose of modernized GUIs). QT stands alone on its monolithic rock, whereas Electron leverages Chromium and Node.js, two absolute powerhouses of free development and dependencies. Finally, and most importantly: the web is more beautiful and far more consistent than native-styled apps, and GUIs made whole-cloth from QT are almost always too ugly to even be in the running there. All of those downsides are worth it to save some RAM? Not even worth it, but worth lauding like it's a brave stance?
Sorry, just triggered my trauma from having to work in QT before I was able to find my true calling as a webslinger. No offense to the author of this particular app ofc, I'm sure it was the right choice for them and it looks well-executed for QT. ...Though if they used Electron, it could've been "Jocker" or "Tocker" (ts!) or "Chrocker" or "Electrocker" rather than "cock-er", but that's neither here nor there.
Qt Creator makes it so easy to whip together a UI that you can easily write code for. It's an absolute pleasure compared to alternatives (at least the ones that I've tried).
Are you planning on a Qocker Spaniel DLC?
That said, it's pretty weird that they are just running the `docker` command directly and "manually" parsing the output instead of just calling docker-py, which has been around forever: https://github.com/docker/docker-py
Super cool!
- Don't need to have another service running in the background constantly, using up server resources
- Don't need to expose another service including authentication on the server like with a web interface, can just use it via SSH
- Works locally the exact same way as on a remote machine, unlike some desktop GUIs
- A nice, live, interactive overview of all running containers and their logs unlike with the docker CLI (I find the output of `docker ps` impossible to read, it ALWAYS wraps the output for each container across two lines in my terminal and I can't tell how the values line up)
I don't want yet another tab in my browser, I also don't use webmail, web based chat clients, IDEs, newsreaders and so on. I'm mostly okay with Electron apps, if their done right (VSCode and 1Password comes to mind a two really good examples).
However, Python dependencies is a living nightmare that I won't enter.
- Support for Podman
- Support for Qt6
It listed containers, volumes and networks and started & stopped a container. The Terminal item expects the container to have bash, so would need some tweaking to use /bin/sh.
I didn't need to set DOCKER_HOST, but I assume I have the Docker compatibility mode enabled.
