Hi Hugo,

This advice are based on my own experience, since this, don't take an
"official" advice.
If you have GUI that's changes a lot dynamically at run time, may be
will be better not use Designer. If not, Designer ( yes, I know you
hate :) ) will be a good friend.
The current Designer's approach are very better than the old Qt 3
Designer's approach. Try to do a little experience with Qt Creator and
Designer to see how the things are done.
I think after some time you'll be very surprised and a lot of time can
be saved. I think more easy to do and and maintain complex but static
GUI by using Designer.

Regards,

Wagner

2009/10/27 Hugo Pereira Da Costa <hugo.pereira@free.fr>:
> Hi,
>
> Newbie question. What's the policy on designing user interfaces (Qt based)
> in KDE:
> use UI files rather than brute force c++, or indiferent ?
> I personally hate Qt designer (for my own reasons) and have been used to
> design my UI in brute force c++.
> Are there some known disadvantages with this approach ? Or historical
> reasons against it ?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Hugo
>