Qt - custom window chrome

Question

I want to create an app with QT v 5.3 (PyQT/PySide) that has a custom window chrome (somewhat resembling windows modern ui/metro) - here's the design.

Now my question is - should I go with standard QMainWindow, use the Qt.FramelessWindowHint and just add some widgets (for title bar, status bar, window action buttons) or should I create my own QWindow equivalent or maybe there's another option?

Answer 1

You can achieve the needed design with frameless window and custom controls. I did similar things in the past with Qt Widgets and it was really painful.

For your suggested UI, I would go with Qt Quick . It would be pretty easy and straight forward to do all of custom controls and with style standard (see Qt Quick Controls ) ones to your needs.

In addition you would need to implement custom handling for moving the window with mouse, as your window would lack the default header.