Nick Sabalausky schrieb:
"Robert Clipsham" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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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.
Unless you're a KDE (or Xfce) user. Which actually brings up another thing:
It's my understanding that wxWidgets can use other things than just GTK on
Linux. And AIUI, Qt and KDE are tied togther in the same way as GTK and
GNOME, so does that mean Qt won't use GTK for Linux users running GNOME?
Lots of Qt applications don't use kdelibs and lots of GTK applications
don't use gnomes libs so I wouldn't say they're tied together.
Newer Qt versions can use GTK themes and even GTKs filepicker, so they
feel native for non-kde-users. (Getting this to work can however be a
bit tricky, at least when using xfce the correct theme isn't detected
out of the box)
