# Julia for GUI app

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-for-gui-app/416>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Created:** [November 18, 2016, 3:20pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-for-gui-app/416 "2016-11-18T15:20:50Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 20, 2016, 1:03am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-for-gui-app/416/10 "2016-11-20T01:03:58Z")

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FWIW I really appreciate the design of Gtk.jl and would like to use it.

But my problem with Gtk is that it really is very rough on Windows (and also Mac), unless I have missed something. And this is made even worse on very high resolution displays. Qt on the other hand does much better on both platforms. This is not a minor issue, ugly GUIs really do put people off in a slightly irrational way (the functionality might be perfect).

If Qt with its C++ baggage is too much, then maybe [https://github.com/andlabs/libui](https://github.com/andlabs/libui) and [https://github.com/joa-quim/Libui.jl](https://github.com/joa-quim/Libui.jl) might be a nice solution; but I haven’t looked into it much yet.

The simplest solution would be that I am just ignorant and have missed the trick to make Gtk useable on windows.

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