CR 2: Change GUI framework
Customers
- Core RViz developers
- Plugin developers
- RViz users
Current state
RViz uses the GUI library wxWidgets.
Problem Description
wxWidgets is not a popular choice of GUI library. The documentation is not great. For lack of a more specific complaint, it is not much fun to program with.
Technical solution
Switch to Qt. Reasons:
Qt is fun to program with. The documentation is quite good. It is very popular.
If we both port to Qt and move most of the classes into libraries, we will enable a lot of people to write programs which use the libraries. Several projects at Willow involve GUIs written in Qt, and then there's rviz running in a separate window alongside.
