Java > Scala -> new thread: GUI for D

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2011-12-02 19:15, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> "Adam Wilson"<flyboynw at gmail.com>  wrote in message
> news:op.v5vibnca707hn8 at invictus.skynet.com...
>> On Fri, 02 Dec 2011 04:33:48 -0800, a<a at a.com>  wrote:
>>
>>> QML looks like it is (currently ?) targeted at the kind of GUI
>>> programming when you make your own custom widgets for everything. It
>>> only provides the most basic components such as rectangles, text, and
>>> images. There isn't, say, a button components - you have to make one
>>> using a Rectangle and a MouseArea. One consequence of this is that
>>> typical GUI programming is much slower. Another consequence is that you
>>> can't build GUIs that look native on multiple platforms. QML is probably
>>> great for some things, but it is not a replacement for GUI  toolkits
>>> such as Qt.
>>
>> This is similar in concept to how XAML in WPF/Silverlight is used to
>> construct screens, and it's not bad idea. And the fact that the UX can be
>> skinned to look nothing like the default OSUI is actually probably one of
>> the most useful things about WPF and Silverlight. Yes, it doesn't look
>> true to the OS, but you'll find that in the UI Design world, that is of
>> surprisingly little importance.
>
> That's without a doubt my #1 complaint about desktop apps over the last
> decade: Narcissistic designers with nothing but contempt for a user's
> control over their own system.
>
>> The most important thing to a UI designer  is that the UI looks and works
>> the same across *ALL* OS's.
>
> That's just terrible.
>
>> Facebook looks and works the  same regardless of whether I pull it up in
>> Chrome or Firefox, Mac or Linux.
>
> The hell with mobile, eh? Making things look and act the same on everything
> is *terrible* UI design. Making things look and act *appropriate* for the
> given platform has alwas been and will always be the proper thing to do
> regardless of what the majority of designers decide is the trend du jour
> (ok, so that's redundant, so sue me ;) ).
>
>

I agree. I hate that applications invent their own GUI widgets when 
there already exist perfectly usable widgets. These new widgets never 
work or look as good as the native ones.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg