The forecast is looking Qt for fans of open-source weather app Typhoon, the latest update to which swaps its GTK3 backend for a more modern Qt 6. Most interesting about the change is that it doesn’t have any impact on the UI. Typhoon still shows a colourful, borderless window with transparency, and conveys weather forecast data using stark white text and glyphs. Archisman Panigrahi, Typhoon’s developer, says the Qt port means the app is no longer using the deprecated GTK3 toolkit, but that moving to GTK4 was a non-starter as it ‘does not play well with simultaneously borderless and draggable […]
Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/02/typhoon-weather-app-qt6-port
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Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/02/typhoon-weather-app-qt6-port
Aggregated via Linux News
