What would you rewrite in D?

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2010-10-07 00:26, Robert Clipsham wrote:
> On 06/10/10 23:03, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>>> Ok, for me GTK is native because I use Linux and a GTK based desktop.
>>> I know that there's a native GTK port for OSX/Quartz and I thought
>>> GTK had
>>> themes to look native on Windows?
>>>
>>
>> It does make a vague attempt to look native on Windows, and is FAR
>> better in
>> that regard than, say, Swing, Winamp, Iron/Chrome, or pretty much
>> anything
>> from Apple. But there's still rather noticable differences in both
>> look (the
>> chunkiness I mentioned, just as one example) and in feel (particulary if
>> you're using GIMP). It's kinda like gluing a picture of some wings
>> overtop
>> the logo on a Ferrari and saying "See, it's an Aston Martin!"
>
> Platform wise, GTK looks appalling on OS X, acceptable, if non-native on
> Windows (I think there's a GTK theme that fixes this, not sure), and,
> well, you use it on linux. As for Qt, it uses the native GUI for all the
> platforms it works on (and if you don't like that there's a config tool
> to make it look as ugly as you like :)).

I haven't seen any native looking Qt application on Mac.

>  From a developers standpoint, GTK is a lot more awkward to work with
> (whether you're using the C interface or the GtkD wrapper), and is
> generally not as nice to work with (based on a few hundred lines of code
> that did very little, I switched to Qt at that point). Qt on the other
> hand I've found a pleasure to work with from day 1, everything seems to
> work as expected, and typically needs far less code.
>


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/Jacob Carlborg