GUI libraries
Jacob Carlborg
doob at me.com
Fri Nov 29 05:31:34 PST 2013
On 2013-11-28 21:54, Xavier Bigand wrote:
> Yep, that the goal, having applications with a real personality. I don't
> think it's an issue especially when application is full screen and
> respect pictographs (icons and texts) standards,...
"real personality", it's more of trying to emulate the native toolkit to
fails.
> Having custom UI can help applications to improve ergonomic with
> dedicated behaviors when it's needed.
>
> D itself isn't limited to one policy, you can do objects or not,... the
> only things that is important is to let a strong default couple of style
> and ergonomic without adding complexity for users want do some custom
> stuff.
>
>
> What is native on windows ?
> - Win32
> - Winforms
> - Qt Widgets (that is near Win32)?
>
> And on linux ?
> - GTK (with gnome and KDE)
> - Qt QML (KDE future)
>
> A native UI isn't necessary considered as the standard one, maybe Qt
> have a chance to be a real standard (on many platforms).
There's one thing in creating a completely new GUI, like games do, and a
completely different thing in trying to emulate a native toolkit and
fail. The above video is an example of the latter.
--
/Jacob Carlborg
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