> Qt is an easy sell on fresh projects, but switching a large existing codebase is huge.
There have been a lot of major projects ported to Qt over the years, both commercial and open source (e.g. Wireshark, Subsurface).
There have been a lot of major projects ported to Qt over the years, both commercial and open source (e.g. Wireshark, Subsurface).
In wireshark, for example, its meat is in the networking code, and the important skills of the developers are there, on inkscape, on the other side, the non-trivial contributions probably happen very near to the graphic frontend. If GTK goes to the gutter, retraining the developers to get to the same level in Qt will set Inkscape back years.