On 5 fév, 05:27, "Ben Goodger (Google)" <[email protected]> wrote:
> In general, we've avoided cross platform UI toolkits because while
> they may offer what superficially appears to be a quick path to native
> looking UI on a variety of target platforms, once you go a bit deeper
> it turns out to be a bit more problematic. As Amanda says, your app
> ends up "speaking with a foreign accent".
>
> Our experience is that using these frameworks also limits what you can
> do to a lowest common denominator subset of what's supported by that
> framework on each platform.
>
> My initial thought was that a Windows-clone would be acceptable on
> Linux provided the performance of the app itself was outstanding,
> given the general reluctance of some of the team working on Linux
> towards UI. But they stood up and made their case for a GTK UI, and so
> if you read the other thread on this topic posted to this list
> yesterday, you'll see that that's what we've decided to do. A
> Windows-clone would most definitely not be acceptable on MacOS X,
> where the APIs for UI development are highly evolved and have many
> outstanding features. So that's always been the plan there. views is
> still theoretically portable, but it's unlikely we'll ever use this
> capability. The architecture of Chrome has converged over the past few
> months on a solid separation of view from state, and this has given us
> the flexibility to make these decisions and choose from the widest
> range of alternatives.
>
> -BenOn Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 8:20 PM, Peter Petrov <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > This thread sounds really scary. Although it was initially claimed
> > that Chrome was designed to be cross-platform from the ground up, it's
> > obviously full of windows-isms at almost every level. Now it seems you
> > will be forced to maintain a separate UI port for each platform.
>
> > I sincerely wonder, why didn't you just use Qt for the UI from the
> > beginning? It blends very well with the native look&feel on each
> > platform, while still letting you implement the distinctive Chrome
> > features. Qt 4.5 will even have native look in GNOME.
I agree with Peter Petrov.
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