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title: 1. What is QSkinny?
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:doctitle: 1. What is QSkinny?
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QSkinny is a UI framework based on the Qt graphic stack and written in
{cpp}. It allows users to write their UIs in {cpp} and/or QML.

.The Fendt Tractor GUI
image::https://www.fendt.com/de/images/5d19bb4e7b260601c8134e14_1673943667_web_de-DE.jpg[Fendt Tractor GUI]

It is currently being used in the Fendt Tractor GUI project, see the
picture above. For the Fendt Tractor GUI there is no QML used at all;
the whole codebase is written in {cpp}. An overview of how QSkinny fits
into the Qt architecture is depicted below:

.QSkinny sits on top of QtQuick, while QML is optional
image::/doc/tutorials/images/architecture-simple.png[QSkinny architecture]