dmd support for IDEs

[Jeremie Pelletier]

Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 12:22 AM, Nick Sabalausky <a at a.a> wrote:
>> Jeremie Pelletier" <jeremiep at gmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:hats2b$as0$1 at digitalmars.com...
>>> Lutger wrote:
>>>> Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>>>> ...
>>>>> As far as I know neither Qt(d) or gtkD uses native controls on platforms
>>>>> other than linux, which to me is unacceptable. The look especially on
>>>>> mac.
>>>> Qt used to try and look like native controls, but now it uses them
>>>> directly.
>>> It has pros and cons, Firefox too has the native look and feel without
>>> using the native controls, so it saves on the overhead of tons of GDI
>>> handles and can render the entire GUI in cairo.
>> I use FF a lot and umm...no it doesn't. Not remotely. It's always stood out
>> as every bit of a blatant GTK app as GAIM, GIMP, or Thunderbird. As soon as
>> I can find a browser with equivilents too all my essential hacks (*cough*
>> extensions) and *real* controls (which rules out IE and Opera. And
>> Chrome/Safari... AH HA HA HA!), then I'm ditching this garbage.
> 
> ..huh? What OS are you on? It looks perfectly native on XP, Ubuntu,
> and Kubuntu for me..

Same here, Firefox/Thunderbird looks great in 7 and Ubuntu. Of course if 
you are using KDE and build firefox against GTK you won't have the look 
you're expecting, you need to build firefox against Qt for that :)