Having Trouple with Finding Qt Desgin studio in Ubuntu Linux after Downloading it

[Yousef Alaa Hussain]

Hey everyone,
I am new to qt and i Downloaded it Today,
and i Checked the qt designer studio while Downloading so i can have it, but now, I cant find it, i Searched in the Search bar "qt designer" and didnt find it.
Can anyone Tell me why dont i have the qt Designer even tho i downloaded it? and if it is somewhere, what is its name?
Thanks!

[artwaw]

What OS are you on?

[JonB]

@artwaw Clue is in the title ;-)

[artwaw]

@JonB Right, sorry. I was looking for tags or in the post.

@Yousef-Alaa-Hussain what is the output of where designer? (that's the command you type into the terminal)

[JonB]

@artwaw
I don't mean to be on your case, but are you sure about where under Linux or Ubuntu? :) I've used whereis or locate or even find, but not where.

@Yousef-Alaa-Hussain
If you downloaded from a browser isn't it where it puts or you told it to put downloads?

[artwaw]

@JonB said in Having Trouple with Finding Qt Desgin studio in Ubuntu Linux after Downloading it:

where under Linux or Ubuntu? :)

Works on my Debian... Alternatively which also will do the job, I do in fact have a lot of custom stuff.

[JonB]

@artwaw
FWIW. Under Ubuntu/bash:

jon@ubuntu-22:~$ where where
where: command not found
jon@ubuntu-22:~$ whereis where
where:

For Debian:
https://wiki.debian.org/WhereIsIt

which foo
whereis foo
type foo (at least for bash users)
locate bar.baz
find / -name bar.baz

No mention of where :)

[Yousef Alaa Hussain]

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[Yousef Alaa Hussain]

@artwaw
whereis designer
'designer: '
this is the output

and i find it in a folder called tools named designer, but when i launch it, i cant find the run command, searched for it every every every where, but didnt find it

[JonB]

@Yousef-Alaa-Hussain said in Having Trouple with Finding Qt Desgin studio in Ubuntu Linux after Downloading it:

and i find it in a folder called tools named designer

So you are saying running file .../tools/designer tells you that it is an executable file, right?

but when i launch it, i cant find the run command

What does this mean?

I assume you try to run it from a terminal (by typing its path), so that you can see if there is any error message.

[Yousef Alaa Hussain]

@JonB
i mean that, whereever you finish writing any program, you should see a run command, to run your code, but i cant see any run command in qt design, unlike windows version where there is a run button to click and run your application,
see the image, this is after opening qt designer in Ubuntu Linux

wihle this image at windows, where you can see the run button:

so my question is, how to run the qt designer project?

[JonB]

@Yousef-Alaa-Hussain
So now you are able to run designer which you said you could not find and we were helping with, but you didn't say that?

From your screen shot under Linux you have downloaded/installed/run Qt Designer/Creator, for widget applications, while under Windows you have Qt Design Studio, an advanced tool for producing QML applications with special assets (about which I know little, but I presume that is what you are looking for). You can see the applications look very different from each other. They are quite different things!

If you want the same as Windows you need to download/install/run Qt Design Studio for Linux, not what you have. I was not the person who said anything about designer being the executable for that, I suspect for Design Studio it has a different name.

[Yousef Alaa Hussain]

@JonB
so according to you qt designer is different than qt design studio

for me, i already have qt creator installed, but i want qt design studio, the advanced tool that uses qml with special assets, can you please tell me how can i get it?

[JonB]

@Yousef-Alaa-Hussain
I don't know I know, I have never used it. How did you get it for Windows in the first place? Did you look at https://doc.qt.io/qtdesignstudio/studio-installation.html ? Is it available in Qt Maintenance Tool?

[JKSH]

@Yousef-Alaa-Hussain said in Having Trouple with Finding Qt Desgin studio in Ubuntu Linux after Downloading it:

so according to you qt designer is different than qt design studio

That's right.

for me, i already have qt creator installed, but i want qt design studio, the advanced tool that uses qml with special assets, can you please tell me how can i get it?

See https://doc.qt.io/qtdesignstudio/studio-installation.html#using-qt-maintenance-tool

[Yousef Alaa Hussain]

@JKSH
i actually did it, but i have no idea where did it get installed, as you can see here, it is already installed, i cant click next:

but when i search for qt, only qt creator and qt maintenance tool get found

[JKSH]

but when i search for qt, only qt creator and qt maintenance tool get found

Look inside your Qt installation directory. The default location of the app is ~/Qt/Tools/QtDesignStudio/bin/qtdesignstudio

[Yousef Alaa Hussain]

I greatly appreciate your help. I found it.