# 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, 10:44pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-for-gui-app/416/25 "2016-11-20T22:44:05Z")

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@tknopp I agree that Gtk.jl is a great piece of work and appreciate the effort that went into it. But Gtk itself really does leave a lot to be desired and this have been a long standing complaint from Mac and Windows users. WxWindows and Qt on the other hand are well established and do look fine.

As I’m not volunteering to work on this I realise I have a small (or insignificant voise), but as a data point: Gtk really does not look fine to me and my users, to the extent that I am forced to use PyQt from Julia, which is clearly sub-optimal (I would like to try Qml.jl but can’t install it on Windows at the moment).

Here is a screenshot giving a small example of the poor quality of Gtk (notice the difference between the native title bar and the actual GUI):

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/e/7/e7aefd051b176ec093067622da20b5487e9c837d.png)

Qt, Wx, libui do not have this problem, which is why it is a little frustrating that the best maintained and designed GUI library for Julia is something different.

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