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
