Wireshark 2.0: Now with Qt

Posted Dec 15, 2015 5:59 UTC (Tue) by ploxiln (subscriber, #58395)
Parent article: Wireshark 2.0: Now with Qt

I've used a custom compiled 1.12.x with the GTK+3 UI on OS X for about a year. It's a bit tricky, but homebrew makes it managable, to compile all the dependencies with the right flags. You can end up with a full-featured non-X11 wireshark 1.12.x that looks good and works well.

It's disappointing that the main Wireshark site never offered a non-x11, gtk+3 OS X build.

I'm sure they had other reasons to want to do a UI re-write with QT though, and I don't think less of them for that.

Wireshark 2.0: Now with Qt

Posted Dec 17, 2015 8:54 UTC (Thu) by thumperward (guest, #34368) [Link] (1 responses)

GTK3 has never had the development resources to be a first-class citizen for anything except Linux. Ten years ago GTK was a genuinely compelling prospect as a cross-platform UI toolkit, but since then there's been a one-way trend even across free software projects. And Qt is used by literally every cross-platform proprietary application I use now.

Wireshark 2.0: Now with Qt

Posted Dec 17, 2015 13:22 UTC (Thu) by jospoortvliet (guest, #33164) [Link]

... And exceedingly often also by the open source ones. Good with me, gtk 2 is fine but often fro 3 apps stick out like a sour thumb.

Wireshark 2.0: Now with Qt

Posted Dec 18, 2015 23:49 UTC (Fri) by jmayer (guest, #595) [Link]

There were quite a few reasons, I tried to explain a few of them at phoronix:
http://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/software/general-lin...
It's mostly about stable APIs and a bit about multi plaform maintenance.