D2 GUI Libs

[Lars T. Kyllingstad]

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.

I think native look and feel is a lot more important in, say, a web 
browser or a word processor. I don't care so much about which GUI 
toolkits Gnuplot or Mathematica use...

-Lars