D2 GUI Libs

[retard]

Sat, 12 Dec 2009 16:13:39 +0000, dsimcha wrote:

> == Quote from retard (re at tard.com.invalid)'s article
>> Sat, 12 Dec 2009 05:10:24 +0000, dsimcha wrote:
>> > 2.  Native look and feel.  IMHO this is very overrated.  I've never
>> > found that a Java-ish or GTK-ish or whatever look and feel instead of
>> > a native Win32 look and feel got in the way of me using a program
>> > effectively.
>> The win32 look and feel doesn't look native on linux/mac/solaris.
> 
> Right, the implication here was that I mostly use Windows and I've never
> really cared if an application I use has a GTK-ish or Swing-ish or
> whatever look and feel, as long as the application is well-coded,
> responsive and does what I need. I'm speaking purely from personal
> opinion/experience here, but I don't understand why people care so much
> about platform-native look and feel as long as it works and is usable.

Well programs tend to be cross-platform these days. More like that in 
*nix world, since the development toolchain is highly portable. I daily 
use programs written by authors who favor Linux, *BSD, MacOS X, and 
Windows. If everyone just made their programs use the theme and 
conventions of their favorite OS, I would have to deal with 10+ different 
GUIs in daily work.

I currently use Swing apps, AWT apps, SWT apps, GTK+ 2 apps, Qt 3 and Qt 
4 apps, TCL/TK apps, run some games via wine (win32 gui), and some 
applications even use the old legacy unix gui toolkits. Then some apps 
like google chrome have their own kind of look and feel. Web applications 
have proprietary custom look and feel. This is pretty confusing to me, at 
least.