Nice, good job, specially for going with Qt instead of Electron.
I tried to test the software: Needed Qt as there are no releases, but Qt is behind a paywall, and according to a previous post here in HN [1] it seems they resorted back to tactics they already reckoned (In 2015) were not good. I guess I'll just have to wait until the page has the releases ready.
apt install qtbase5-dev / brew install qt / whatever works just fine here.
if you are on windows and absolutely want the official releases :
pip install aqtinstall
python -m aqt install 5.14.2 windows desktop win64_msvc2017_64 -O c:/Qt/I'm on debian 10 and that didn't work, but I suspect it's something to do with my current installation that complains about a missing Qt4 software even after installing that (That I'll research when I have the time).
sudo docker run -it debian:10
apt update
apt install qtbase5-dev build-essential g++-8 qt5-qmake qt5-default git
git clone --recursive -j16 https://github.com/francescmm/GitQlient
mkdir build && cd build
qmake ../GitQlient && make -j16
This is not true!
There are releases, and especially for Linux it already packaged as AppImage (portable package).[0]
Second creating an account at Qt doesn't hurt.
Finally, they need to pay their bills, just like I have to.
If I have to just make an application in .NET env as a small time dev I don't even have to register anywhere just get .net core and VS Code.
OK I understand that MS can pull it off because they have big companies paying for their stuff. I also don't really know how to compete with them. But me as a small time dev cannot afford to get with all Qt BS where there is almost no BS for using free stuff from MS. (I have to count every minute or hour, so putting up with some forms or else is taking too much of my time already)
I would love to give money to Qt instead of MS or Apple but yeah I have to pay my bills as well.